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It's amazing to him, David Jeremiah said, how prayer so often is "something we turn to only when we get into trouble."

"We try everything else but prayer" to find our way, he said, because "when the political, military and financial solutions are not working," we often call on God only as a last ...

Its place on the calendar has changed, and it's an entirely indoor festival this year.

But everything else is still the same, and everything is set to go for today's Purple Door music festival, back at its former home just south of Lebanon.

The event that features harder-edged Christian music ...

The folks at Elizabethtown First Church of God don't know the exact day their church was founded in 1837.

So they decided to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the church, at 144 S. Market St., Elizabethtown, with a variety of events throughout the year.

Brothers in Grace Gospel Quartet will l...

What does it take for a teacher to win a Golden Apple Award from the Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg?

Judging from the two Lancaster County teachers who were among seven in the diocese to win Golden Apples this year, caring would be a good bet.

Caring and self-effacing.

"It's so hard to talk...

Editor's note: This is the eighth column in a series on Mormons.

As I looked ahead to wrapping up this series on the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints in the next couple of columns, I realized that it would be remiss not to focus on a Mormon who might be president. 

Mitt Rom...

Trinity Lutheran Church Pastor Jeffrey Pretz is retiring after almost 40 years in the ministry, the past six at Trinity.

Pretz began his pastorate at Trinity on Jan. 15, 2006, after 31 years as pastor at Salem Lutheran Church in Ephrata.

He will end his long pastoral career on Sunday. His empl...

As the Rev. John Harper faced certain death on the maiden voyage of the RMS Titantic, he thought not of himself but of others.

Harper, 39, safely stowed his 6-year-old daughter, Nana, on a lifeboat. (She survived.) He gave away his life jacket.

Then the Baptist minister from Glasgow urged thos...

We live in a world where information is plentiful, talk is plentiful and "words have become increasingly cheap," the Rev. James Ayers said.

But some words — such as the last ones spoken to Jesus on the cross just before he died — are important because of what they teach us to this day...

Members of San Juan Bautista Catholic Church participated in a Good Friday street procession this afternoon, during which church members presented live Stations of the Cross.

Such processions are a time-honored custom in Spain, and the tradition was brought to the New World by the Spanish.

Tod...

How does a church attract young people?

One way could be by opening a service with pop star David Guetta's "Without You."

"So when they walk into church, they won't think it has nothing to do with life," said Bobby Parschauer, 40, lead pastor of Community Fellowship Church, 200 Bethel Drive.
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