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By:  José Andrés – washingtonpost.com – April 20, 2020 But what do you see in thousands of cars outside a food bank in San Antonio? Or cars lined up for hours outside supermarkets in Puerto Rico when people heard about food and water deliveries after Hurricane Maria? I am a cook. Over the past few years, I have learned a lot by…

By: Stephen Hays – medium.com – February 11, 2020 Michael Perron is one of my sponsors in recovery. He is also a minister who created and runs the Life Recovery Program at Prestonwood Baptist Church. This program has been very influential in my recovery and was instrumental in saving my life from addiction and mental illness. Michael himself struggled for over…

By: Robin McKie, Toby Helm, & Michael Savage – theguardian.com – April 18, 2020 Humanity will have to live with the threat of coronavirus “for the foreseeable future” and adapt accordingly because there is no guarantee that a vaccine can be successfully developed, one of the world’s leading experts on the disease has warned. The stark message was delivered by David…

By: Everett Piper – washingtontimes.com – April 18, 2020 “I fear death, so take my liberty!” The biggest threat to the United States today is not a virus, but rather “virus-shaming.” The greatest challenge the American experiment faces in this dark hour is not our need for safety but our loss of liberty. And the complicity of the church in the wholesale…

By: Staff – newsman.com – April 19, 2020 Governors in U.S. states hardest hit by the novel coronavirus sparred with President Donald Trump over his claims they have enough tests and should quickly reopen their economies as more protests are planned over the extension of stay-at-home orders. New York continued to see hospitalizations decline to 16,000 from a high of…

Guidelines: Opening Up America Again

By: Tucker Carlson – firstliberty.org – April 2020 Kelly Shackelford and First Liberty Client Pastor Charleston Hamilton of King James Bible Baptist Church (“KJBBC”) join Tucker Carlson to discuss how the attacks against “drive-in” worship services in Greenville, Mississippi are unconstitutional. During a Good Friday service held in the KJBBC parking lot, elderly worshippers were fined and threatened with going to…

By: First Liberty Staff – firstliberty.org – April 11, 2020 This afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Justin Walker granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing Louisville, Kentucky Mayor Greg Fischer from blocking On Fire Church from holding drive-in services on Easter.  The TRO was filed yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky by First Liberty…

By: Melissa Quinn & Clare Hymes – cbsnews.com – April 16, 2020 As the coronavirus pandemic continues to upend daily life for millions of Americans, with nearly the entire population subject to mandatory stay-at-home orders, the public health crisis is pitting state and local officials against worshippers in some states, as they grapple with limitations on large gatherings. To curtail…

By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – April 16, 2020 States that want to break up church services to prevent infection must demonstrate a genuine need and use the least restrictive means possible. State and municipal governments have the power to protect their citizens from the spread of infectious disease. “There is no pandemic exception, however, to the fundamental liberties the Constitution…

By: Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs & Jeremy W. Peters – msn.com – April 16, 2020 As President Trump and some of his supporters push for a more rapid return to pre-coronavirus economic activity, protesters in several states took to the streets this week to urge governors to relax the strict rules on commerce, work and daily life that health officials have said are…