Dagny May Bankewitz, 10 months old and newly baptized, plays with confetti “seeds of faith and love” used during worship to illustrate the parable of the sower. Dagny and her parents, Tanya and Lee, are members of Oceanside [N.Y.] Lutheran Church.
Focal verse “As in one body we have many members and not all the members have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and…
Much of Jeffrey Overstreet’s professional life has centered on cinema, from his extensive film writing—including as critic for Christianity Today—to the courses he teaches at Seattle Pacific University. But film…
Community leaders, clergy and public officials gathered March 14 at Christ Lutheran Church of Staten Island, N.Y., to officially launch the Salam Radio Station, the first Arabic Christian ecumenical online…
Vicki Michela Garlock was making her way through her morning read of Religion News Service when she came across a story about a man who earned a Guinness World Records…
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