1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1416+ words) CAN THO, VIETNAM — Suppose you were expecting a visitor you’ve never met from a faraway country. And suppose that, just before this person showed up, a family member or close friend of yours passed away. You’d probably scramble to find…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (629+ words) Churches of Christ in Colombia expressed gratitude Wednesday for the support they received after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the South American nation, killing more than 300 people and destroying some 29,000 homes. “Brothers and sisters, you don’t know how grateful we are…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (454+ words) The first time Jase Robertson heard Jim McGuiggan preach, “I couldn’t understand a word he was saying,” said Robertson, star of the reality TV show “Duck Dynasty.” For Robertson, born in “parts unknown Louisiana near the local swamp,” McGuiggan’s Northern…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (779+ words) GLEN JEAN, W.VA. — Since I was 6 years old, Scouting has been a cornerstone of my life. Alongside honing skills like knot tying and leadership, it has also strengthened my faith, reminding me that serving others is one of the ways…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1368+ words) GLEN JEAN, W.VA. — Just steps away from a climbing wall at the Summit Bechtel Reserve, 179 Scouts and Scouters gathered on Sunday morning for a change of pace from the adventure surrounding them — worship. As 8:30 a.m. approached, a sea of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (915+ words) ‘I’m sorry to tell you, but your church is on fire.” Manuel Florescu was up at 3:15 a.m. Thursday with his wife, Leslie, and youngest of six children, 2-year-old Sorin, when he got a call from the Troy Police Department…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1461+ words) BOURBON COUNTY, KY. — By the thousands, the believers came — Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians among them. In covered wagons and carriages, pioneer settlers traveled to the backwoods of Kentucky for a weeklong camp meeting orchestrated by a 28-year-old Presbyterian clergyman named…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (688+ words) ‘Church of Christ. Established A.D. 33.” Most of us have seen such a sign outside a building where the Lord’s church meets. We know what it means: God established the Church of Christ when Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1699+ words) NAPLES, IDAHO — An eye-catching sign featuring a Christian school’s Rams mascot greets logging trucks along heavily traveled U.S. 95, about 40 miles south of the Canadian border. Just off the highway, tamarack and ponderosa pine trees dot the landscape as K…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1326+ words) NASHVILLE, TENN. — “I’m part of the irrelevance.” Those words, from an older adult at the Harpeth Hills Church of Christ, stopped Robyn Arab in her tracks. As director of the church’s Resource Center on Aging, Arab had spent years promoting…...