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Crayon therapy: St. Paul minister creates, donates coloring books for women in shelters
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (720+ words) Peggy Pugh remembers coloring at 3 years old. She remembers how her parents would argue in the background and how, despite the chaos in the home, she’d find her own little pocket of peace. One that was all hers. A blank…...
St. Paul: CLUES moves food service, child care into former church site
11+ mon, 21+ hour ago (748+ words) For years, First Lutheran Church in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff rented its education building at 461 Maria Ave. to a handful of nonprofits like the East Side Elders program and Urban Roots. Over the past year or more, the social service…...
A beginner’s guide to Kwanzaa
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (625+ words) By GRAHAM LEE BREWER, Associated Press Kwanzaa has become a nationally recognized celebration of African culture and community in the United States since its founding in 1966 and also is celebrated in countries with large African descendant populations. The holiday, which…...
The best Christmas gift of all? For one St. Paul church, it’s a new home
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (1420+ words) The members of Church of the Redeemer have spent the past 15 years without a permanent home. They’ve met on Sunday afternoons — so as not to interfere with their hosts’ Sunday-morning worship schedules — at churches in Roseville, Arden Hills and St....
‘House of David’ star Michael Iskander says season two resonates beyond the religious
11+ mon, 5+ day ago (562+ words) By GARY GERARD HAMILTON, Associated Press “The story of David is pretty wild, and I think there’s a reason why it’s resonated for so many years,” said the former Broadway actor, who, in his first major TV role, plays the…...
Bible stories would be part of a new Texas public schools reading list drawing attention
5+ mon, 4+ day ago (791+ words) Biblical stories like Jonah and the whale would be required reading for Texas public schools students under proposals that are putting the state at the center of another contentious wrangling over the role of religion in classrooms. Religious leaders, teachers,…...
Funerals at Washington’s National Cathedral tell the story of a nation
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (519+ words) By MIKE PESOLI, Associated Press The church’s history and tradition, said Washington National Cathedral Provost Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope, put it “at the intersection of the civic and the sacred.” The funerals held there shed light both on the…...
What to know about Hanukkah and how it’s celebrated
9+ mon, 9+ hour ago (476+ words) Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah means “dedication....
St. Paul’s first Thanksgiving 175 years ago lacked turkeys, but not booze
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (484+ words) Turkey was not on the menu when St. Paul celebrated its first Thanksgiving 175 years ago. The iconic American game bird was “as scarce as hen’s teeth” in the infant city when residents sat down to their holiday dinners in late…...
Ancient meditation practices find new life in modern religious communities across America
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (1035+ words) By LUIS ANDRES HENAO and DEEPA BHARATH On most Monday nights, the sanctuary of All Saints Episcopal Church — with its vaulted ceilings, stone arches and stained-glass windows — seamlessly transforms into a space of quiet contemplation. It’s in this Gothic Revival…...