There's a song, an old hymnal standard, called "Little Brown Church in the Vale." This simple song used to be sung on a regular basis at the Illmo United Methodist Church, except the congregation ...

SOUTH TROY, Minn. — Drive north on U.S. Highway 63 from Rochester, and you're bound to see it. There, in the unincorporated community of South Troy, is the little white South Troy Wesleyan Church, its ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Kelly Clement was always intrigued by the little Alpine village her mom re-created at Christmastime. Amid the series of miniature buildings, her favorite was a little white church with ...

Beatrice Snowden moves through Dorsey Chapel with an air both reverent and proprietary. No spot is so dear to her childhood as the little white church in Glenn Dale, which once was condemned and ...

It looks like any of the many small white churches that have been part of the geographical and spiritual landscape in Minnesota and the Dakotas since the first settlers arrived years ago. But this ...