SAN JOSE, CALIF. Services at the Coachella Valley Church begin and end with the Lord’s Prayer. In between, there is the sacrament. “Breathe deep and blow harder,” intoned Pastor Grant Atwell after distributing small marijuana joints to 20 worshipers on a recent Sunday afternoon. “Nail the insight down, whether you get it from marijuana or […]

BATH The Salvation Army Bath- Brunswick ended its 2017 Red Kettle campaign two days before Christmas, raising 82 percent of its goal. Local Salvation Army officials thanks those who volunteered their time to staff the kettles and those who made donations during the campaign. “We’re grateful to those who came alongside of us with their […]

Living in Maine, we know that storms will come. Some of us fly south for the winter, hoping to avoid them. But as last year’s devastating hurricane season demonstrated, no place is exempt from the potentially destructive forces of nature. When forecasters predicted a foot of snow and blizzard conditions along the coast of Maine […]

“And lo, the star which they saw in the east went before them till it stood over where the young child was.” Matthew 2:9 A New Beginning In just a few days we will begin the countdown to a New Year. But God does not count times as we do. The universe will remain undisturbed […]

CASPER, Wyo On a Sunday in September, morning light drifted through stained glass as churchgoers in Rock Springs raised their eyes to God. In Basin, a congregation joined voices to sing an opening hymn. In Thermopolis, they bowed their heads, opened their hearts and asked for mercy. Then the prayers — recited in each of […]

As a young adult, my New Year’s resolutions often involved reading through the Bible in a year or praying for a prescribed number of minutes or hours — Yes, hours! — per day. Inevitably, I fell short, as did my resolutions to drop a certain number of pounds, exercise for a certain number of hours, […]

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The family of a 5-year-old boy who remains hospitalized after being injured in the November shooting rampage inside a Texas church said Monday that his recovery is going well and he remains in good spirits. Ryland Ward has been hospitalized since the Nov. 5 shooting inside the First Baptist Church of […]

I know, I know. It’s not the un-pardonable sin. But it might as well be. At least by the way most Christians in the Church treat those who have been impacted by it. Whether you were the one initiating it or the one blindsided by it, as soon as people become aware of the fact […]

BATH The Sacred Heart Eucharistic Adoration Chapel, which has been housed at St. John the Baptist Church in Brunswick, will temporarily move to St. Mary Church, located on 144 Lincoln St. in Bath. The cause for the relocation is the massive project underway at the St. John campus on Pleasant Street in Brunswick as a […]