Feb
22
STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: “Very soon, Proposition 8 will be gone forever,” one of the plaintiffs says NEW: The Mormon church says it “regrets” Tuesday’s ruling Proposition 8 supporters say they’ll appeal, and a stay remains in place The narrowly written decision may be “the last word” on California, Toobin says San Francisco (CNN) — A …
Feb
22
All athletes hit rough patches in their careers—the MVP slugger who goes 1 for 20 in a playoff series, the sensational rookie quarterback who goes through a sophomore slump, etc.—and while senior guard Alex Johnson is not immune, he manages to find strength and comfort in his faith in God. Johnson, who has not made …
Feb
22
Within a few months, downtown Rantoul should have a new coffee shop and cafe. Java Connection, a project of First United Methodist Church in Rantoul, is slated to open in the former Mediacom building at 107 E. Sangamon Ave. “It will be a Christian coffee shop, but not Christian in your face,” said Mark Keyes, …
Feb
22
A Florida church has caused outrage by turning away children from its popular Sunday services to cater to a pastor who is a registered sex offender. The decision to allow convicted child molester Darrell Gilyard into the pulpit has angered neighbouring pastors and members of the congregation of the Christ Tabernacle Missionary Baptist church in …
Feb
22
A cadre of volunteers clad in light green T-shirts are fanningout across the Ellwood City area this week to help their neighborswherever they can. They are part of the Carpenter’s Project, so named because theyare helping people as Christ the carpenter did. The work began Monday – painting, pouring cement, fixing windowsand any other house …
Feb
22
How do a world record, a “fun”draiser, an awareness event and ahot dish belong on the same buffet table? She is clear about many things. “It is going to be organized mayhem. I know it’s going to becrazy. And I think we will be well above 805, the currentrecord.” When Lundberg, the pastor at United …
Feb
21
February 8, 2012|3:32 pm Hoping to address this ongoing issue taking hold of Christian leaders today, Collin Hansen spoke to World Harvest Mission’s executive director, Bob Osborne, to seek his wisdom on the alarming problem. “When I find myself heading for burnout, more often than not I’ve lost the rhythms of rest and repentance and …
Feb
21
Religion TweetShare The Mormon church has apologized for the posthumous baptism of the parents of Simon Wiesenthal. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last month submitted the names of Wiesenthal’s parents for posthumous baptism, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Wiesenthal was a Holocaust survivor who died in 2005; his mother …
Feb
21
Bakers for Christ made fastnachts for a food bank. The group, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Roosevelt Avenue in West Manchester Township, made 1,500 fastnachts with plans to donate proceeds to the Harvest of Hope Food Pantry in Mount Wolf, said Larry Kaetzel, who coordinated the church’s fastnachts effort. Bakers for Christ members started …
Feb
21
This is the first in a series of one-on-one interviews with vice presidential contenders. Next week, John Gizzi profiles Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers.When I first interviewed Marco Rubio on April 14, 2009, my initial question was the obvious one for this young, long-shot candidate: Why wasn’t the Miami lawyer and former speaker of the Florida …