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  Churches Cancel Worship Services, Move Online in Response to Coronavirus

  March 16 at 4 a.m.

  As events are canceled across the city and businesses instruct employees to work from home due to COVID-19, another facet of life was affected last weekend: religion. All over the DFW area, houses of worship suspended in-person services, with some moving to virtual, livestreamed services. This left many pondering what...

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  First Baptist Dallas’ Coronavirus Marquee Was a Bluff (Mostly)

  March 10 at 4 a.m.

  As much as we hate to do it, we're about to give First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress more of the thing he loves more than anything else in the world: attention. If you've driven through downtown Dallas or made the rounds on the internet in the last week or...

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  We Watched Robert Jeffress’ Interview with Sarah Sanders So You Don’t Have To

  March 3 at 4 a.m.

  If you have any inclination toward preserving your sanity — or prefer a slightly less Trumpy version of Christianity — chances are you missed First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress' interview with former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. The interview occurred right in the middle of First Baptist's Sunday...

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  Nearly Half of North Texas Muslim Students Are Bullied at School, Report Says

  February 28 at 4 a.m.

  Every now and then, a student walks up to Yazan Naseef in the hallway at Plano East High School and tells him exactly what he thinks of him and his religion. I know how you guys really are, the student says, before railing about how Muslims all want to kill...

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  Robert Jeffress Is So Serious About Jesus, He’s Turning His Church Over to Sarah Sanders

  February 14 at 4 a.m.

  First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress is not a stooge. In fact, if one even raises the idea that he's totally in the tank for President Donald Trump, providing evangelical cover for keeping kids in cages, hush money payments to porn stars and absolutely anything else Trump decides to during...

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  Trump Plays the Blind Squirrel Again at National Prayer Breakfast

  February 7 at 10:11 a.m.

  Speaking after the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, President Donald Trump took on Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, the only Republican to vote for the president's removal from office during his just concluded impeachment trial. “I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong,”...