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  Senate committee adds vouchers to school funding bill

  In a last-ditch move, the Texas Senate Committee on Public Education attached a school voucher program to a substitute version of a House-approved public education funding bill.

  05/23/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Kason Branch to be nominated for SBC second VP

  Kason Branch, senior pastor at Creekstone Church in North Richland Hills, will be nominated for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

  05/23/2023 - By Baptist Press Staff

• Obituary: José Isaac Soria

  José Isaac Soria, a longtime Texas Baptist pastor and public schoolteacher, died May 20. He was 91.

  05/22/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

• Obituary: Frank Rainey Jr.

  Frankie Rainey Jr., former pastor and professor, died May 19. He was 84.

  05/22/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Bestselling author and retired pastor Tim Keller dies at 72

  Tim Keller, an influential Presbyterian Church in America minister who founded a network of evangelical Christian churches in New York City, died. He was 72.

  05/22/2023 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Former Magnolia youth minister admits to sexual indecency

  A former youth minister remained in jail after telling the Magnolia Police Department he sexually touched teenage boys while working at First Baptist Church of Magnolia.

  05/22/2023 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  What is Christian nationalism?

  Christian nationalism blurs the distinctions between Christian identity and American identity. Beyond that basic definition, the understanding of what constitutes Christian nationalism becomes less clear.

  05/18/2023 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Education Department issues religious expression guide

  Public school students are free to pray voluntarily, while teachers can neither encourage nor discourage religious activity, according to guidelines from the U.S. Department of Education.

  05/17/2023 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Around the State: DBU-Oak Cliff Good Samaritan Awards presented

  Dallas Baptist University presented the DBU-Oak Cliff Good Samaritan Award to Scott Coleman and Leigh Gettman-Allen for their Christian leadership and service to the Oak Cliff community in Dallas.

  05/17/2023 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  State Department reports religious freedom threats

  U.S. State Department officials continued to point to atrocities in Russia, China and Afghanistan as they released their annual report on threats to religious freedom.

  05/17/2023 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Saddleback appeals SBC ouster over woman pastor

  Saddleback Church, the California megachurch long known for its former pastor, bestselling author Rick Warren, has appealed the decision by the Southern Baptist Convention to oust it for naming a woman to its pastoral team.

  05/17/2023 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Cyberfraud costs Florida Baptists more than $700,000  

  Staff at the Florida Baptist Convention thought they were sending mission money to help pay for church planting. Then the money disappeared.

  05/17/2023 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service