3+ hour, 41+ min ago   (288+ words) Joyce A. Kreider age 89 met her Lord and Savior face to face on Monday, January 12, 2026. She was the loving wife of the late Lloyd E. Kreider, who passed away on August 12, 2024. She was born in Blue Ball, PA, daughter of the late…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (392+ words) Candles flicker in the darkness during a prayer vigil at St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Feb. 15, 2018. Heather Gehron-Rice is a member of the Lancaster Interfaith Coalition's steering committee. We as leaders of the Lancaster Interfaith Coalition are distressed by the…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (96+ words) Thoughts on Christianity, immigration: Letters to the Editor for Jan. 6, 2026LancasterOnline The LNP | LancasterOnline Opinion department publishes reader letters in both the newspaper and online on Wednesdays and Sundays. On the other five days of the week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (909+ words) Scripture is remarkably honest about time working this way. As Ecclesiastes puts it, "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven" " everything flows from one compartment of time to another, and life continues whether…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (257+ words) The recent Bondi Beach massacre in Sydney, Australia, was yet another in a long and continuing list of murders, expulsions, forced conversions and myriad atrocities through the ages committed against Jews. These atrocities result from stories. Ideas have consequences. I…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (144+ words) 2025 has almost passed and 2026 is before us. Even with all the determined efforts of our current president, meaningful well-wishers have expressed their hope that our broken world will turn in a better direction. 2025 has almost passed and 2026 is before us....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (666+ words) The Reverend, Canon, Dr. Stanley Franklin Imboden The Reverend, Canon, Dr. Stanley Franklin Imboden, 93, entered Eternal rest on December 21, 2025 at home surrounded by his loving family. For sixteen years Stanley Imboden was Rector of Lancaster's historic Saint James Episcopal Church,…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (435+ words) Rev. Dr. Charles H. Oberkehr We have reached the third Sunday in Advent, known as "Gaudete Sunday." In the Western church, "gaudete," the Latin word for "rejoice," was the first word of the appointed "introit," or psalm of the day, sung…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (296+ words) HOLIDAY COOKIE SALE: The Quarryville Library Center, 357 Buck Road, Quarryville, will host their Holiday Cookie Sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13. For more information, visit quarryvillelibrary.org and click on "Events." CANDLELIGHT CHRISTMAS: The Conestoga Area…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (315+ words) In January 1994, a massive winter storm blanketed the Ephrata area with snow and ice." The weight of that rain-soaked, iced-over snow collapsed the roof of the parish center at Our Mother of Perpetual Help School in Ephrata, according to Ephrata…...