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1+ day, 23+ hour ago (622+ words) LONDON (RNS) " In the heart of the city, on one of its most iconic streets, the side of a small, Baroque-style church has recently been draped in a shimmering curtain that casts a lavender-like hue at night. The dramatic installation, titled "Decades," by the Manchester artist Louise Giovanelli, is intended to draw attention to St Mary le Strand, a 300 year-old church that until a few years ago had been considered moribund. Like an actor standing behind a curtain, ready to perform, the church is now in the process of revealing its latest act. "The reason we wanted to do the artwork is actually just to draw people's attention to the building and make people look again," said the Rev. Peter Babington, the priest in charge of St Mary le Strand. "This is not a closed, redundant building, but there's something…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago (149+ words) The 300+ ensemble will give visitors a look at the town of Bethlehem as it was at the time Jesus was born. The church is located at : 3601 Hillsboro Pike Nashville, TN 37215 ... "Politics divides families, it divides friendships, it divides churches! Senior Pastor of Woodmont Christian Church Clay Stauffer asks, "How can we bring people together who don't see the world the same way and get them to talk to each other, listen to each other, and have a mutual respect and understanding of where the other person is coming from?" Stauffer acknowledges that this division has always been there, but wonders what has changed? How can churches model how to have these difficult discussions? Woodmont Christian Church will be performing a live nativity Sunday, Dec The 300+ ensemble will give visitors a look at the town of Bethlehem as it was at…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago (173+ words) The moral framework upon which America was founded, upon which the Constitution rests, is that of Christianity. Our system of government is incapable of functioning without this framework. While our backs are turned in our preoccupation with hand-wringing about the virtues of ecumenism, enemies of the Faith are busy taking over. The internal persecution of traditional Catholics is currently weakening the global church'and it will only continue to do so. Ecumenism without conversion is an empty gesture; it does as much good as giving cash to a drug addict." Fiona Melton lives in rural North Carolina with her husband. She writes about culture, gender, agrarianism, and Catholicism on her Substack,"Margins of Eden. When she's not writing, she can be found reading, cooking, or going on a long walk in the woods. Very well stated. But I would not hold…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago (720+ words) By David W. Virtue, DD An exclusive interview with the Rev. Jerry Kramer of Love for the Least, a global mission to Muslims in the Middle East and East Africa. He and his wife Stacy have been actively serving as missionaries for more than 25 years. They were briefly in the US before returning overseas, where I had an opportunity to interview him. VOL: In the U.S., only one percent of churches is doing evangelism, according to Ryan Burge and other demographers. Is this the beginning of the end if churches are not actively evangelistic? VOL: Traditional missionary methods have seemingly failed, with increasing talk of interfaith dialogue and accommodation with other faith and religious traditions. In your opinion, why did traditional missionary methods fail? VOL: Your work is mainly in Iraq, Iran, and Tanzania. First, tell us about your work in Tanzania....

6+ day, 3+ hour ago (431+ words) Nuns are having a moment. It's not the religion women crave, however " it's a sense of purpose, community and peace, writes Emma Beddington Tired of being a woman in 2025? Why not become a nun " Nuns are having a moment. It's not the religion women crave, however " it's a sense of purpose, community and peace Nuns are everywhere " we've had Isabella Rossellini's Sister Agnes stealing the show in Conclave and nuns with main character energy in The Phoenician Scheme, And Just Like That and Nine Perfect Strangers. On #nuntok (yes, a thing), real sisters demystify and give surprisingly irreverent glimpses into their lives. There was the Austrian trio jailbreaking from a care home to return to their beloved convent, and at the other end of the demographic scale, a rise in younger women following, or at least considering, cloistered vocations. Nun…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago (947+ words) by editor | Dec 1, 2025 | Archive, Homepage, Southern Partisan BEAUFORT " The story of the first Thanksgiving in North America nearly perfectly embodies the truism that history is written by the victors. Representations of the "first" Thanksgiving are rife with English pilgrims and Native Americans celebrating a bountiful harvest in Plymouth, Mass., in the fall of 1621. That's all true enough. But according to historical records, the French may have celebrated a Thanksgiving some 57 years earlier and 1,000 miles south of New England. And while that took place in somewhere along the St. John's River near present-day Jacksonville, Fla., there is a direct line between events on Beaufort County's Parris Island and that celebration. Two decades earlier, France, intent on getting a foothold in the New World, dispatched naval officer Jean Ribaut with orders to establish a colony along the coast. Ribaut sailed from France…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago (45+ words) As ICE raids continue at houses of worship, Rev. Paul Erickson, of the Greater Milwaukee Synod, explains that religious institutions need to be "the conscience of government them back to ... You're watching a daily free preview Preview expires in 00:00 You can cancel anytime....

1+ week, 4+ hour ago (96+ words) Would Christianity still dominate the United States if it were reimagined as a small town of 100 people? That's the premise of a new report from Pew Research Center, which offered fresh analysis of America's religious landscape through the lens of Pew's sweeping 2023-24 Religious Landscape... Would Christianity still dominate the United States if it were reimagined as a small town of 100 people? That's the premise of a new report from Pew Research Center, which offered fresh analysis of America's religious landscape through the lens of Pew's sweeping 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS)....

1+ week, 5+ hour ago (811+ words) Bradford makes clear in Book I of Of Plymouth Plantation that the communal system was not chosen by the Pilgrims for ideological reasons. The London merchant investors'who financed the colony'insisted that all labor, production, and profits be merged into a common stock for seven years. Food, apparel, tools, and all necessities were to be distributed equally regardless of contribution. This was not a utopian experiment; it was a contractual instrument of early modern capitalist investment. Yet, from the colonists" perspective, it functionally resembled enforced communalism: equal distribution without regard for effort or skill, centralized control over labor assignment, and a social structure that minimized individual initiative. But the reality of life in Plymouth'starvation, exposure, disease, harsh winters, and the precariousness of frontier existence'exposed the fragility of this arrangement. With investors 3,000 miles away across the Atlantic, the contractual structure was increasingly…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (531+ words) I don't think it was coincidental or circumstantial that one hundred years from this day (almost to the day) the Continental Congress received Richard Henry Lee's resolution for a Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. (We have Richard Henry Lee's'Resolution for Independence'in THE FREEDOM DOCUMENTS as well.) All told, we have 212 full-size (8" x 11) pages containing 57 of the greatest documents of American history compiled under ONE title. We call this magnificent collection THE FREEDOM DOCUMENTS. There isn't another book like it in existence. This book is absolutely essential to the knowledge of American history. THE FREEDOM DOCUMENTS'are being printed and distributed RIGHT NOW. The first Thanksgiving Proclamation issued by the revolutionary Continental Congress was on November 1, 1777, and authored by Samuel Adams. It reads in part: FORASMUCH as it is the indispensible duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of…...