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  Court allows tuition tax credit for religious school scholarships

  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a state program that allows public funds to go toward private education cannot exclude religious schools.

  07/01/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Music ministers compare notes during a pandemic

  An informal survey of Texas music ministers revealed two-thirds of the churches they serve currently offer both online and in-person worship services, and average in-person worship attendance is less than 40 percent of the pre-pandemic level.

  06/30/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Baylor acknowledges historic ties to slavery

  Baylor University regents acknowledged the school’s historic ties to slavery, and the board established an advisory commission that could lead to removing or renaming some campus landmarks.

  06/29/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Student who posted video ‘no longer enrolled’ at HSU

  Hardin-Simmons University initiated a disciplinary process involving a student who posted a “deeply disappointing and unacceptable social media post” that mocked attitudes toward interracial violence, HSU President Eric Bruntmyer said.

  06/29/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Life experiences led to passion for corrections ministry

  Karen Vinyard, a longtime Woman’s Missionary Union leader in Illinois, became involved in corrections ministry while her husband was serving 13 years in prison after being convicted on drug-related charges.

  06/29/2020 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

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  White Christians face ‘moment of reckoning’ about racism

  In the current “moment of reckoning” on racial justice, white Christians need to tell the truth about how they historically benefited from systemic racism if they want to “rescue the faith,” an author and researcher with deep Southern Baptist roots told an online audience.

  06/29/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Mississippi Baptist leaders want Confederate flag removed

  Offering a “voice of healing in the name of Jesus Christ,” Mississippi Baptists asked the state legislature to replace the state flag with a design that does not include the Confederate flag.

  06/26/2020 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Racial justice requires moving beyond talk, presenters tell CBF

  At least three workshops during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s 2020 general assembly featured the topic of racial justice.

  06/26/2020 - By Eric Black / Editor

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  Most in U.S. not comfortable going back to worship services

  A new study examining Americans’ response to COVID-19 shows that with the exception of white evangelicals, a majority of Americans are not comfortable returning to in-person religious services.

  06/26/2020 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service

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  CBF virtual assembly focuses on pandemic and racial injustice

  During a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship general assembly in which participants assembled online, issues related to a global pandemic and racial injustice took center stage.

  06/26/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Webinar: Pray for Dreamers, work for immigration reform

  Although the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on DACA provided temporary relief for young immigrants, their future remains uncertain, and the United States desperately needs immigration reform, participants in a bilingual webinar insisted.

  06/25/2020 - By Marv Knox & Isa Torres

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  Wesley House of Studies established at Truett Seminary

  The Wesley House of Studies is being formed at Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary, and William J. Abraham, most recently a professor at SMU’s Perkins School of Theology, has been named its founding director.

  06/24/2020 - By Staff / Baptist Standard