About 70 people, many of them pastors or elders at churches which had chosen to disaffiliate with the United Methodist denomination, gathered recently to learn more about the Global Methodist Church (GMC) as a possible alternative for their congregations. One of two bishops in the GMC, Mark ...
Dads as a member of the male species have one glaring flaw: hygiene deficiency. You see, God made Adam out of dirt, and that is why guys can live in filth and have little sense of cleanliness. When God made Adam, He immediately saw that Adam had a hygiene deficiency. He had no sense about ...
PITTSBURGH — Rabbi Jonathan Perlman took the witness stand wearing the yarmulke he had on the day a gunman burst into his Pittsburgh synagogue during Sabbath services and began shooting anyone he could find. The skullcap Jews wear as a reminder of God’s presence fell off during the Oct. ...
In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, America’s religious leaders and denominations have responded in strikingly diverse ways — some celebrating the state-level bans that have ensued, others angered that a conservative Christian cause has changed ...
Recently, I visited someone in the hospital. It was my first visit after May 11th, the official last day of the national coronavirus emergency. The hospital was one of the last places where mitigations were still in place. But this time, I didn’t have to take my temperature or show my clergy ...
MUNCY — The historic Old Immanuel Lutheran Church, 2633 Lime Bluff Road, will host its annual Memorial Service at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4. The Rev. Ben Lander, who serves St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Muncy, will preach on the theme “Sent Out,” and Joy Barto will accompany the ...
