MOBILE, Ala. (RNS) — With 98 percent of state precincts counted, Roy Moore held on…
Pastor says hospitality staff can't live by bread alone
SPOKANE, Wash. (RNS) — Kevin Finch grew up in meat-and-potatoes country, a small town off…
Why is it so hard to do religion in prime time?
(RNS) — Many TV network executives, advertisers and producers would sell their souls to get…
Atheists' slavery billboard raises tempers in Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG, Pa. (RNS) — The billboard is down, but the issue’s not gone. A billboard…
Priest defends denying Communion to lesbian
(RNS) — A Catholic priest who was pulled from ministry after a furor over denying…
March 22 webinar to aid rural/small-town ministries
LCMS Rural and Small Town Mission (RSTM) will hold a webinar from 1 to 2…
Black Ministry Convocation set for July in Greensboro
The LCMS Southeastern District Coalition of Lutherans in Black Ministry is sponsoring a national Black…
Weedon accepts call to LCMS Worship, IC chaplaincy post
The Rev. William C. Weedon of Worden, Ill., has accepted the call to serve as…
LCMS families deal with tornado damage in Michigan
By Kim Plummer Krull LCMS families in Ann Arbor are among those dealing with damages…
Needed: Volunteers, support to bring hope to Minot
By Kim Plummer Krull Strong backs and arms plus volunteers with carpentry and electrical skills…
Northern Illinois District re-elects Gilbert
Delegates to the LCMS Northern Illinois District convention, meeting March 9-10 at Concordia University Chicago,…
'Be Well Rewards' program extends into 2012
By Elizabeth M. Truong Concordia Plan Services (CPS) — the Synod’s benefits provider — announced in…
After months of wrangling, occupiers evicted from St. Paul's Cathedral
LONDON (RNS) — Police on Feb. 28 evicted scores of demonstrators from a makeshift tent…
Breakaway Anglicans ordered to return property by April 30
(RNS) — A Virginia judge has ordered seven congregations that broke from the Episcopal Church…
Israeli postmen refuse to deliver Hebrew-language Bibles
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Israeli postal workers outside Tel Aviv are refusing to deliver thousands of…