I assume large numbers of people spent an hour or two at church this morning, but I did something vastly better: I got out of bed, drove roughly 20 miles east to Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge, and ran the mile-long trail of switchbacks to the top. Then I ran back down and did the same again.
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Randall Stephens Listen to Sunday’s All Things Considered (NPR) for a feature on black preaching from the 18th century to the present . Guy Raz speaks with Martha Simmons about her new edited volume, Preaching with Sacred Fire . The story includes audio clips of 20th-century sermons and some insight on how black preaching through the centuries opens a window onto the African-American experience
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Black Preaching and African-American History
The empire of controversial Agape Ministries Church spans two states, eight properties and a fleet of 13 vehicles, and its funds are held in 10 separate accounts, it has been revealed. Court documents obtained by The Advertiser show for the first time the scope of church leader Pastor Rocco Leo’s fortune obtained, his detractors claim, through fraud.
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Controversial Agape Ministries Church sells $1.6m home
To understand this post, you need to do something before you continue reading. You need to see the photograph that accompanied this news story when it ran on page one of the Washington Post
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No faith in this immigration story
It remains one of the non-Muslims’ gravamina that they find it increasingly difficult to build their places of worship. But recently, the Johor state government not only approved the building of a church, it also contributed RM200,000 to its cons…
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19. Leading with an open heart
Today the Catholic Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, a Franciscan priest who was a missionary in Japan. During World War II, by which time he had returned to Poland, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz
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Maximilian Kolbe on the Origin of Existence
Police had presented the case as a possible hate crime, but prosecutors file felony vandalism charges over damage to the monument at St. Mary’s Armenian Apostolic Church. A 23-year-old man who allegedly used a sledgehammer to smash a religious monument outside St
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Man pleads not guilty in sledgehammer attack on Glendale church monument
2240 State Route 136 :: Hillsboro, OH 45133 Average Attendance: 90-100 Contact Information Chad McConnaughey or Steve Emery (937) 364-0804 (937) 927-5731 (alt) chadmcconn@gmail.com Position Description Full-Time Ministry Position Small Town Community steve.emery@cpsagu.com Position: Full-Time Ministry position. The Sugar Tree Ridge Church of Christ is an established church in the community of Sugar Tree Ridge.
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GetReligion reader Duane Shank, a Mennonite who grew up in Lancaster County, Pa., passed along a link to a front-page Philadelphia Inquirer story on the Mennonite tradition of service. Tied to the massacre of 10 medical aid workers — including Glen Lapp, a Mennonite — in Afghanistan last week, the piece drew praise from Shank. He nominated writers Amy Worden and David O’Reilly as journalists who “get religion”: This piece is one of the first I’ve seen in a mainstream paper that understands the nuances of Mennonites
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Hands and feet of Jesus?
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 Churches today demanded that the government resolve the Allah issue and charge the rest of the culprits responsible for attacking other churches, following the conviction of two siblings for torching the Metro Tabernacle church. Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST) …
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Churches want Allah issue resolved and others convicted