Holding prayer before meetings was first discussed during a Jan. 9 board meeting. The original amendment board members could open meetings with prayer and prevented them from invoking "Jesus Christ" ...

Brevard's newest school board member is kicking 2025 off with a goal of putting prayer at the start of meetings. Adding a voluntary invocation before board meetings, John Thomas said, would be “a ...

City councilors voted Wednesday to amend the Council Rules and Order of Business to remove the invocation before regular council meetings and replace it with a moment of “silent prayer or personal ...

The wood-lined walls of the Meridian City Council chambers have heard a lot: hours of testimony on proposed In-N-Outs; impassioned pleas about new subdivisions and the challenges of city growth. But ...