Although steeped in tradition, Red Hill Lutheran Church has found ways to adapt during a pandemic that makes life anything but normal. When California closed places of worship four months ago in an ...

Immigrant Faithful Turn to Virtual Sermons, Home Communion Amid Trump Crackdown By Nathan Layne CHICAGO (Reuters) -Sitting alone at her dining room table this past Sunday, Doris Aguirre took a bite of ...

Sacrament. To say that word in a worship service of many American congregations will likely draw a raised eyebrow or perplexed glance. But our worship is generally grounded deep within a sacramental ...

Far from a simple subscription to a series of doctrinal statements, being a true Christian requires sticking to Christ as a branch does to a vine tree. Jesus teaches us this lesson of divine ...

In his Letters to a Young Evangelical, Tony Campolo shares a story from his youth about taking Communion: Sitting with my parents at a Communion service when I was very young, perhaps six or seven ...

The city is bathed in Yuletide spirit, with churches and shops aglitter with fairy lights, tinsel, glass baubles, and twinkly Christmas trees. A Christmas crib put up at Vineyard Worker’s Church in ...

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CHICAGO - Sitting alone at her dining room table this past Sunday, Doris Aguirre took a bite of a soda cracker and a sip of the orange juice she had prepared to represent the body and blood of Jesus ...