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  • Arkansas Baptist churches decry 'unfair and damaging' report
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Monday, July 06, 2020 (one year ago)

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    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP) -- Two prominent Southern Baptist churches were unfairly portrayed as contributing to the spread of COVID-19 in a recent report issued by the Arkansas Department of Health, according to Arkansas Baptist State Convention Executive Director J.D. "Sonny" Tucker.

    Tucker expressed his concerns in an email to Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and other state officials. Read More

  • Nevada defends church attendance cap in U.S. appeals court
    by Scott Sonner, posted Thursday, July 02, 2020 (one year ago)

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    RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Lawyers for the state of Nevada say the 50-person cap placed on worship services due to the coronavirus doesn't infringe on constitutional protections of religious freedom because it doesn't target anyone's ideology or opinion.

    "The right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community ... to communicable disease," the state argued in documents filed this week in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Read More

  • Churches' lawsuit challenges San Jose ban of indoor worship
    by David Roach/California Baptist, posted Wednesday, July 01, 2020 (one year ago)

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    SAN JOSE, Calif. (BP) -- Two San Jose churches have filed a federal lawsuit claiming a coronavirus-related ban of indoor worship violates their First Amendment rights.

    The suit, filed in U.S. District Court by Southridge Church (a California Southern Baptist church plant) and Calvary Chapel San Jose, alleges Santa Clara County's shelter-in-place orders "target" churches by forbidding them to gather indoors for worship while permitting people to gather indoors at shopping centers, real estate offices, summer camps and summer schools among other locations. Additionally, the county has acknowledged the right to attend large protests regarding racial justice while restricting outdoor worship to 25 people. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: When all is stripped away
    by David Johnson, posted Friday, June 26, 2020 (one year ago)

    We have been through a time when everything has been stripped away, David Johnson says. When that happens, it usually reveals something about our hearts. Read More

  • Survey: Most Americans not comfortable going back to church
    by Yonat Shimron, posted Wednesday, June 24, 2020 (one year ago)

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    WASHINGTON (AP/RNS) -- 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.

    The results of the survey suggest that despite political pressure to reopen houses of worship -- from President Donald Trump as well as leading conservative Christians and religious liberty advocates -- Americans aren't quite ready to take a seat in a sanctuary. Read More

  • New worship EP created specifically to impact students
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Friday, June 12, 2020 (one year ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- As they wrote, words and music combining to produce worship -- with the specific goal of reaching students -- Brandon Sharp couldn't help but be reminded of his own testimony.

    As an eighth-grader at a Student Life Camp, seeing everyone in a room worshiping together, he was truly struck by Jesus' power for the first time. It's that power of music, Sharp said, to teach the heart of Jesus that motivated the creation of the songs on "Infinite," a new seven-song EP released by SL Worship, the worship ministry for LifeWay's Student Life Camps. Read More

  • As coronavirus restrictions loosen, congregations grapple with including older adults
    by Yonat Shimron, posted Friday, June 12, 2020 (one year ago)

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    THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP/RNS) -- Each Sunday, Larry Little and his wife, Mary, get ready for church. They dress casually, fill two tumblers with water, climb into their golf cart and drive two miles to The Grove, a grassy field next to their church.

    There they find a parking place, turn off the engine and settle in for a live service in front of a Jumbotron and a stage. Read More

  • 'Chair for one': Creating community for singles as onsite worship resumes
    by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, May 28, 2020 (one year ago)

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    DULUTH, Ga. (BP) -- Singles ministry consultant Paul "P.J." Dunn has visited several churches planning to resume onsite worship during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    "So there's no chair for one?" Dunn asked one pastor who was grouping sanctuary chairs for social distancing. "He just kind of smiled and said, 'Well if we did that, we couldn't have as many people.' ... So singles didn't take a priority in that. And he didn't mean it negatively, but socially, that's just kind of how we're trained, is that you come in a couple, you come in a group. You don't come alone." Read More

  • Churches grapple with whether to require masks
    by Tobin Perry/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Tuesday, May 26, 2020 (one year ago)

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    As churches regather for in-person worship amid the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders grapple with whether to require worshipers to wear masks. Read More