Amen, prayer returns to Coolidge council meetings after years 

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By Joey Chenoweth | Coolidge Examiner

After being sidetracked by controversy, prayer returned last week to Coolidge City Council meetings after an eight-year absence.

Byron Sanders, the city’s police chaplain and the pastor at Fairhaven Baptist Church, delivered the invocation at the beginning of the regular Oct. 12 meeting. Sanders was the one who presented invocations in September, when the council then voted to have only Christians be allowed to give the prayer, ignoring the advice of the city attorney not to follow that course.

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