HARRISBURG, Pa. (RNS) — The billboard is down, but the issue’s not gone. A billboard erected in one of the city’s most racially diverse neighborhoods featured an African slave with the biblical quote, “Slaves, obey your masters.” It lasted less…
(RNS) — Many TV network executives, advertisers and producers would sell their souls to get the kind of audience God has. But giving religion a starring role in prime time? Not so much. Religion, God and spirituality have made cameos…
SPOKANE, Wash. (RNS) — Kevin Finch grew up in meat-and-potatoes country, a small town off of Flathead Lake in western Montana. The only fine-dining restaurant there was half eatery/half bowling alley. Everything came out of the deep fryer. “It was…
The LCMS Southeastern District Coalition of Lutherans in Black Ministry is sponsoring a national Black Ministry Family Convocation July 11-15 at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, N.C. The convocation is the first to be held since the Synod’s…
LCMS Rural and Small Town Mission (RSTM) will hold a webinar from 1 to 2 p.m. (CT) Thursday, March 22. The presenter will be Sarah Guldalian, manager of Evangelism Training for Lutheran Hour Ministries, who will discuss “Social Networking Strategies…
By Kim Plummer Krull LCMS families in Ann Arbor are among those dealing with damages after three reported tornadoes ripped through southeastern Michigan on March 15, destroying at least 100 homes, according to news accounts. Two members of St. Paul…
The Rev. William C. Weedon of Worden, Ill., has accepted the call to serve as the Synod’s director of Worship and International Center (IC) chaplain. He will join the staff at the IC May 1. His installation is planned for…
By Kim Plummer Krull Strong backs and arms plus volunteers with carpentry and electrical skills are much needed to help put the “hope” in Hope Village, the volunteer center that opens April 1 at Our Savior Lutheran Church, Minot, N.D.,…
By Elizabeth M. Truong Concordia Plan Services (CPS) — the Synod’s benefits provider — announced in January that the Concordia Health Plan (CHP) “Be Well Rewards” program has been extended through the end of 2012. Some 28,500 CHP members are eligible…
By Linda C. Hoops Georgia Fisher becomes emotional when talking about her 24-year-old grandson, Michael, who is a Marine sergeant serving in Afghanistan since November. “He’s already lost one close buddy,” said Fisher, a member of Grace Lutheran Church in…
Delegates to the LCMS Northern Illinois District convention, meeting March 9-10 at Concordia University Chicago, in River Forest, Ill., re-elected by acclamation the Rev. Dan P. Gilbert of Addison, Ill., as district president. Gilbert, 60, was re-elected to his third…
WASHINGTON (RNS) — When it comes to financial advice in these tough economic times, more Americans today would rather take advice from business mogul Donald Trump than from the Bible. According to a survey conducted in February by two biblically oriented…
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Israeli postal workers outside Tel Aviv are refusing to deliver thousands of copies of the New Testament and other Hebrew-language Christian materials. Israel media reported March 6 that dozens of religious and secular Jewish mail deliverers jointly informed…
(RNS) — A Virginia judge has ordered seven congregations that broke from the Episcopal Church to return all property to the local diocese — from valuable land to sacred chalices — by April 30. The Diocese of Virginia had wanted the…
LONDON (RNS) — Police on Feb. 28 evicted scores of demonstrators from a makeshift tent city they had erected outside historic St. Paul’s Cathedral more than four months ago as part of a global protest against capitalism. After brief skirmishes in…
HIGHLAND PARK, N.J. (RNS) — Saul Timisela was ordered to report to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Newark early March 1 morning to be deported. Instead, the Indonesian Christian took sanctuary at the Reformed Church of Highland Park, where…
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