Lamar Lighthouse dedicates new building Lamar Lighthouse camp will dedicate its new building, The Gathering Place, with a potluck meal at 4:45 p.m., a service at 6:30 p.m., and live music by Avenue Trio at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 10. An ice cream social will follow. All are welcome. The ...
MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia — Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world raised their hands to heaven and offered prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia on Friday, an intense day of worship considered to be the climax of the annual ...
As a nation, we have just celebrated another Independence Day. There were parades and picnics and fireworks. We remembered our founding fathers who put their lives on the line, giving us the framework to govern this great nation. We also remembered the brave men and women who have fought ...
Praise and lament for the overturning of abortion rights filled sacred spaces this weekend as clergy across the U.S. rearranged worship plans or rewrote sermons to provide their religious context — and competing messages — about the historic moment. Abortion is a visceral issue for ...
Once upon a time in the Civil Air Patrol, we lost a lot of clergy. They did not want to have their fingerprints taken to continue to serve, and many left. One of our “regs” assigned a chaplain to every unit, especially those units that had cadets or teenagers in the program. Part of their ...
TUPELO, Miss. — There is a prayer Tanya Britton has said in the hazy first moments of morning and in the stillness of the night. She’s said it on her knees before her church’s gold tabernacle and slumped in the embrace of her living room sofa. The words have morphed, sometimes touching ...
