As I mount the steps into our church foyer on Sunday morning, our pastor greets me with a wide grin and extended eye-contact as he descends them.

Staff report The Civitan Club of Salisbury hosted 13 local pastors on Feb. 6 in celebration of Clergy Appreciation Day.  Held ...

A Texas man convicted of killing a pastor in his own church during a robbery, days after being released from a court-order anger-management program, is slated to be executed Wednesday. Steven ...

Pastor Aaron Sprock provided the invocation for the meal, expressing appreciation for the work, passion and joy of the farmers and ranchers, as well as all the volunteers who help make the banquet ...

Pastor Idowu Iluyomade, the suspended pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, City of David Parish, has launched a new ministry in Lagos called The Family Fellowship. In a video that went ...

The 85-year-old wife of an Orlando pastor is in a coma and near death after being brutally beaten Friday by a man posing as a police officer. Ronald Davis, 55, is charged with armed home invasion ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...

Texas is set to execute Steven Nelson by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 2011 murder of a beloved pastor who was just beginning his ministerial career. Nelson, 37, was convicted for the ...

If you didn’t know who Pastor Lorenzo Sewell was before, you might definitely know now after his fiery prayer at the presidential inauguration. However, social media users weren’t so moved by ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. An Oklahoma pastor was arrested for sexual battery — just one day after he delivered a sermon about letting “bygones be bygones.” ...

NOW TO JUST A HEARTBREAKING UPDATE OUT OF ORANGE COUNTY. THE WIFE OF A LONGTIME ORLANDO PASTOR HAS DIED FROM HER INJURIES AFTER SHE WAS BRUTALLY ATTACKED IN A HOME INVASION. LUCY PASCALE WAS 85 ...

Jan. 16, 2025 Here is some of the greatest, most practical advice I’ve heard on how to start reading poetry: “A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written. We read A ...