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  Tyler church partners with Hull congregation after hurricane

  After Hurricane Harvey, First Baptist Church in Hull immediately responded to needs throughout Liberty County. When First Baptist needed assistance making repairs to its own building. Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler provided the help, working through Texas Baptists’ Church2Church partnership.

  01/08/2018 - By Kirsten McKimmey / Texas Baptist Communications

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  FEMA policy change allows disaster aid for churches

  The Federal Emergency Management Agency changed its policies to allow damaged churches and other houses of worship to receive disaster relief aid.

  01/04/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Around the State: DBU awards degrees; Heart of Texas Baptist Camp schedules concert

  Dallas Baptist University awarded 466 degrees during its December commencement services. The McNeills, a Texas-based musical family, will present a concert at Heart of Texas Baptist Camp in Brownwood.

  01/03/2018 - By Ken Camp

• On the Move: Evan Henson

  Staff change noted for a Lubbock congregation.

  01/03/2018 - By Ken Camp

• Obituary: Robert Joe “Bob” Potts

  Robert Joe “Bob” Potts, retired Texas Baptist pastor and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship missionary, died Dec. 24 in San Antonio. He was 84.

  01/02/2018 - By Ken Camp

• Obituary: Jeannette Clift George

  Jeannette Clift George, a Golden Globe-nominated actress and founder of the Christian-based A.D. Players Theater Company in Houston, died Dec. 23. She was 92.

  01/02/2018 - By Ken Camp

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  Senate fails to vote on international religious freedom ambassador nominee

  Senators recessed before Christmas without voting on Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s nomination as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.

  12/26/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  ETBU baseball team ministers in Dominican Republic

  The East Texas Baptist University baseball team traveled to the Dominican Republic before Christmas to lead sports clinics for children, work on neighborhood renewal projects and share the gospel.

  12/26/2017 - By Kristin Williams / East Texas Baptist University

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  Analysis: Trump, Sutherland Springs and wedding cake top 2017 news

  President Trump’s born-again-like embrace of evangelical politics was the biggest religion story of the year. But a shooting at a Texas church, a wedding cake a Christian baker refused to make and the status of Jerusalem also grabbed headlines.

  12/26/2017 - By Jerome Socolovsky / Religion News Service

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  ‘Trumpvangelicals’ top religion journalists’ poll

  For the second year in a row, President Trump and his conservative evangelical supporters topped the list of the 10 most important religion news stories of the year as compiled by the country’s largest organization of religion journalists.

  12/26/2017 - By Kimberly Winston / Religion News Service

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  Female evangelicals urge church to speak out about violence against women

  More than 140 evangelical Christian women from across the political and theological spectrums have signed onto a statement calling churches to end the silence around violence against women and the church’s participation in it.

  12/22/2017 - By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service

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  Attorney General opinion clarifies rules on handguns and church security

  Licensed handgun owners can pack pistols at church unless congregations post notice they are banned, according to a Dec. 21 opinion from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

  12/21/2017 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor