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Texas Floods Bring Grief and Prayer to Local Churches

At services in the stricken Hill Country and elsewhere, ministers spoke Sunday morning about sorrow and solace, community and hope, as more rain beat down.

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Worshipers at Kerrville Church of Christ heard a sermon on Sunday about how deeply the community had been affected by the July 4 flooding.
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Discovery of 178-Year-Old Baptist Antislavery Document Elates Faith Leaders

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to have been lost.

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The Rev. Diane Badger unfurls a recently found, 178-year-old antislavery scroll at Grotonwood, the home mission of the American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts, in Groton, Mass.
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