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A church in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, will be closed for 14 days after a reported 28 people tested positive for COVID-19. The Greenbrier church outbreak is the fifth church outbreak in the state.

Prayer walk organizers are asking for the full implementation of the Voting Rights Act and the Eight Can’t Wait movement aimed at curbing police brutality. Another demand is the classification of the mistreatment of black people as a human-rights violation.

At a roundtable event held at Gateway Church in Dallas, Texas, the president said said the country’s current state of unrest is “going to end up very good for everybody.” The roundtable preceded a fundraising dinner.

June 12 is recognized by many as "Loving Day" in honor of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose case represented a significant triumph for civil rights. 

“While we do not want to, nor could we, erase our history, it is time for this gavel to go back into the display case at the Executive Committee offices,” SBC President J.D. Greear wrote in an op-ed.

The Rev. Dunford Cole was too ill with the coronavirus to help with worship services at the two churches he leads in south Alabama. But that didn't stop him from preaching. He shared a message from his hospital bed.

Pastor Matt Chandler believes that right now Christians are giving up their inheritance of "the unity of spirit between all ethnicities born of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Pastor Chris Hodges, an author and member of Evangelicals for Trump, had previously expressed a desire to quit social media because of its “distractions.”