After workers have cleared the hollowed-out structure and stabilized portions that survived the disaster, a new era will ...

First Baptist Church of Jacksonville's sole senior pastor is a 38-year-old Kentuckian who speaks frankly about the need for turning around dwindling attendance at the downtown church, which has often ...

As a community gathers to remember and celebrate the baptism of Jesus, all present are offered an opportunity to reflect upon their own sacramental initiation into Christ and the church. Jesus defined ...

POTTSTOWN>> The winter of 1857-58 was brutally cold. Temperatures stayed so low for so long that by February the Schuylkill River at Pottstown was frozen solid. With ice stretching unbroken from bank ...

Along with yesterday’s feast of the Epiphany and the wedding at Cana, today’s feast, the Baptism of the Lord, is one of the three epiphanies of Jesus’ humanity, according to the early Church Fathers.

The humble log cabin had no steeple reaching skyward, no carillon bells calling the faithful to worship, no pews for the congregation to gather. In fact, what’s been called Lackawanna County’s first ...