Most Sunday mornings, Marcia Barker walks out of her house just before 8 a.m. and meets her friend in the middle of the road. Together, they walk across the quiet main street to church. The retired ...

For the fifth time since 2022, Evangel University received a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. The latest is worth $7.5 million. The grant is part of the Indianapolis-based private philanthropic ...

MINOT, N.D. - Some were farmers. Some were ranchers. All could be found on a regular basis at country churches throughout North Dakota. It was the rural church that brought people together like no law ...

Catholic climate efforts are taking root in the countryside — where parishes and lay-led groups draw on long-standing agrarian traditions and the Catholic understanding of stewardship to address ...

Something special is happening at St. John’s Lutheran Church. Nestled among the Platte County cornfields, just past a cluster of old grain augers that sit near the point where Mason Road turns from ...

Rev. Dr. Leonard Edloe at the historic Woolworth Counter, the site of landmark sit-in movements during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s. (Photo by Brian Palmer/brianpalmer.photos) “A pharmacist ...

It's like a temp service, only for preachers. Much like the traveling evangelists in the early West, small and rural churches in Montana that cannot find or afford a full time pastor often recruit and ...

Virgil and Mary renewed their vows in their home church that is struggling to keep the doors open and pews filled. They just may be the first and the last to say those vows here. Virgil and Mary ...