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Take a tour of Wooster's many historic churches
The Daily Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWOOSTER − The city has a lot of churches. Downtown and the surrounding area are home to nearly a dozen churches with a combined history of roughly 1,000...
Going 'less Sunday-centric' or staying traditional? How church in Wilmington is evolving
Star News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIs Wilmington still a churchgoing community? For almost all of Wilmington's nearly 300 years, there...
Cecil 'Chip' Murray, L.A. civil rights icon and spiritual leader, dead at 94
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 months agoCecil L. Murray, a civil rights leader who made the First African Methodist Episcopal Church the...
Just what's so important about a once-in-a-quarter-century election?
Examiner Enterprise via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFew people are aware of an election Tuesday that only happens in Bartlesville every 25 years. But it...
America's Most Iconic Houses of Worship
Cheapism via AOL· 1 year agoMeinzahn/istockphoto Houses of the Holy While religious beliefs are a personal topic, many can agree that houses of worship have become iconic in our...
How old is your church? Our timeline tracks 251, from 1826 to present
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 16—Four score and 117 years ago, when Abe Lincoln was just a gangly teen, a group of early settlers met in a log cabin in the future Vermilion County to establish what would become the area's ...
'An Echo of Belonging': Ebenezer Baptist Church commences 150th year of faith in Austin
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoThe faithful started to assemble at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 21. They slipped through the doors of...
He feared coming out. Now this pastor wants to help Black churches become as welcoming as his own
theGrio via AOL· 3 weeks agoThe Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley hopes his new book, “Queering the Black Church,” can serve as a guide for other congregations to be “open and affirming.” It was daunting when the Rev. Brandon ...
A century of faith: 100 years later, Monroe's Second Missionary Baptist thrives
The Monroe News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Second Missionary Baptist Church in Monroe, “where everybody is somebody and Jesus Christ is the main attraction,” turned 100 years old in March 2022. It was the first Black church in Monroe ...
We Are Aiken County: Area's church history reaches back to colonial times
Aiken Standard, S.C. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 18—Editor's note: We Are Aiken County is a series of articles that will run through Feb. 26. It celebrates people, places and events that shaped Aiken County. Aiken County churches can ...