When I was a kid, I remember going on trips with my grandparents to shop at what seemed like a distant mall. (I think it was about an hour away). If you have ever been on one of these trips with kids, you know what question I began to ask: “Are we there yet?” My grandfather never answered ...
Experts define pilgrimage as “a journey to a sacred place or shrine, a long journey or search.” A decade ago, a long-awaited journey with my just-graduated seminarian and youngest daughter, now an ordained pastor with the United Church of Christ, welcomed the end of May. It was a retreat to the peace-filled Island of Iona with Oasis Ministries for Spiritual Development. Accessibility was limited via two ferries. Our life journeys are always in progress, more than one big list. Being off the beaten path in the Sea of Hebrides, due West of Oban, Scotland and the Isle of Mull, sits ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A coach who crosses himself before a game. A math teacher reads the Bible aloud before the bell rings. A coach who hosts an after-school Christian group in their home.Those were some of the scenarios Supreme Court justices discussed Monday while hearing arguments about a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Shopping for Passover on a recent day at a kosher supermarket in the Hasidic Jewish section of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, Moshe Werzberger worried about how inflation is driving up prices during one of the most important holidays for Jews. “It affects us very ...
April is an intriguing month as we consider matters of faith and the world’s three dominant religious expressions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. In Christianity, April 17th marked the occasion as the world’s one billion followers observed the Feast of the Resurrection of Jesus of ...
Easter’s message of renewal will be especially poignant this year for four U.S. congregations rebounding from disasters. Their churches were destroyed by a tornado in Kentucky, gutted by a blaze in New York City, shattered when Hurricane Ida hit the Louisiana coast, and filled with smoke ...
