Lord, have mercy. In certain Lenten services this invocation is repeated forty times while the body bends down and rises again. The gesture is simple and ancient. Knees bend, hands touch the earth, ...

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It is a tangled, barely credible tale. And the 68-year-old web designer with a kindly grandmother look at its heart makes for ...

13-year-old Ezekiel Pujol, left, and 15-year-old Alannah Redmond, of Paloma Irish Dance School play fiddle for the audience ...

A noticeable shift is taking place as increasing numbers of young adults reach for the Bible in search of something deeper.

Most of us are familiar with the story about the city mouse and country mouse. When each of them visits the other, they learn ...

For many folks around the world, religion is their way to connect to community, tradition, morality, and meaning. However, ...

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