NEW YORK — Every note an elegy, every song a prayer. On a sun-dappled autumn afternoon back in October 2023, longtime friends and musical collaborators Meredith Dean Augustin and Bob Thompson took to the wood-paneled library of Waldomore, the celebrated antebellum mansion in Clarksburg, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just over a month after Pope Leo XIV became the first U.S.-born pontiff in the history of the Catholic Church, a new poll shows that American Catholics are feeling excited about their new religious leader. About two-thirds of American Catholics have a "very" or ...
MUSIC * Southern Gospel Extravaganza WAVERLY — Multiple groups will perform during the Southern Gospel Extravaganza June 13-15 at Crossroads Open Air Sanctuary in Waverly. Admission is free. 6 p.m. Saturday, June 14 — The Perrys, Anthem Edition 11 a.m. Sunday, June 15 — Old Paths, ...
When the Rev. Edward Anderson rallied in Los Angeles this week against the Trump administration's intensifying immigration crackdown, he positioned himself between law enforcement and his fellow protesters, serving as a human buffer. Anderson, who leads McCarty Memorial Christian Church in ...
(RNS) — When he was a teenager in the 1990s, Jordan Morris was always up for a bit of mischief — as long as it didn't involve sex or drugs, two things he was sure would kill him. So he went to a megachurch youth group, which promised teenage shenanigans without much danger. The ...
CHARLESTON – The West Virginia Board of Education unanimously voted Wednesday to provide county school boards guidance to disregard Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s executive order allowing for religious and conscientious exemptions to the state’s school-age vaccine law. During its monthly ...
