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A Texas pastor whose teenage daughter was among more than two dozen people killed in a mass shooting at his church in 2017 said Sunday that he will run as a Republican next year for a seat in the state Legislature.

This week two faith-based organizations joined officials in calling for the removal of Rep. Matt Shea after more leaked e-mails showed that he sought to surveil local progressive leaders in his attempt to establish a 51st state governed by Christians.

Sutton described Trump’s ascendance as a result of “four decades of work” by evangelicals, of whom 81% voted for Trump, four decades that he traced back all the way to Evangelism’s predecessors, pre-millennialism and fundamentalism.

“Secondary stress represents the precious experience of reaching out to others,” Wicks said. “You see, when you are close to someone you not only run the risk of maybe catching their colds we also can run the risk of catching their sense of pessimism, finality and hopelessness.”

Sharlet’s books on the Fellowship, “The Family” and “C Street,” are the basis for a new five-part Netflix documentary series that traces the Fellowship’s history from its founding in 1935 by Abraham Vereide, a Methodist minister, to the 2018 National Prayer Breakfast.

And it is conflicts, much like Sunday’s, that have prompted members of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane to host an instructive weekend on the complicated topic, dubbed “Israel & Palestine: A Journey for Justice.”