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Local churches share how they will celebrate Easter amid COVID-19
Many Easter celebrations are returning for in-person services but not all churches are taking the same approach when it comes to precautions against coronavirus. Author: Matt Lackritz (CBS 19) Published: 9:02 PM CDT April 1, 2021 Updated: 7:45 AM CDT April 2, 2021
TYLER, Texas This time last year, there was hope that Easter would mark the turning point of the pandemic. A year later, many Easter services still won t look the same while others are opening fully. We have the two services, and we re trying to make sure our sanctuary hosts 250 people, Reginald Jones, Executive Pastor at New Life Community Church, said. So we want to make sure that no more than half, so that we can maintain social distancing.
Stop showing contempt for the half of the country that disagrees with you.
“There s no evidence that people in the Republican party are going to perceive that whatever happened yesterday that Trump’s rhetoric and their allegiance to Trump of the last 4 years have somehow gone a bridge too far,” said Jim Henson, the director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.
“I think if that were the case, we would have seen different votes yesterday and we would see being different rhetoric responses today, and we aren t seeing that,” he said.
Republican politicians in Texas aren’t likely to pull back from the cultivation of a deep distrust in government elections, promoted by the president, after Wednesday’s eruption in violence in the Capitol, Henson said.
East Texas pastors hold prayer vigil after Capitol invasion
East Texas pastors hold prayer vigil after Capitol invasion By Dante Nuñez | January 7, 2021 at 9:42 PM CST - Updated January 12 at 1:52 AM
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Community pastors and members of faith gathered in Tyler Thursday night for a prayer vigil at Pollard United Methodist Church.
35 signatures from different religious organizations signed a letter aiming to push back divisiveness after Wednesdayâs capital invasion.
âWe had a moment of national crisis yesterday. I think that if we donât as religious leaders stand up and push back against that and call it out, I donât think weâre doing our jobs,â Congregation Beth Elâs Rabbi Neal Katz.