Before and during the Civil War, white Texas Baptist leadership tied their theology of the gospel and plans for evangelism directly to Southern plantation patriarchy and support of the Confederacy. Read full piece
Dozens of leaders from the preacher’s former congregation are calling for him to resign from The Trinity Church. Read full piece
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Clergy from around the state are joining calls for Missourians to get vaccinated. More than 200 Missouri pastors and ministers have signed a statement urging Christians to get the COVID-19 vaccination. Read full piece
Faith leaders across Missouri are calling for congregations to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Over 200 pastors and ministers in Missouri signed a statement which states that they hope Christians will get vaccinated as a way of following Jesus’s command to “love your neighbor as yourself.” Read full
More than 200 clergy in Missouri have signed up to encourage their congregations to get vaccinated. So far, 20 are clergy from Columbia. Read full piece
Faith leaders know they’re entering a politically-polarizing topic by encouraging vaccinations but Rev. Emily Bowen-Marler with Springfield’s Brentwood Christian Church said it goes with the territory. Read full piece
A diverse group of faith leaders of different Christian denominations held a virtual meeting to ask for the religious community to receive vaccinations. (Video in report includes interview with Word&Way Editor-in-Chief Brian Kaylor.) Read & watch full piece