I have a theory that the church kitchen is the most contested domain in many congregations. If you want to understand the politics of a given church, start with the kitchen: who is in control, and ...

CARBONDALE – God’s Open Kitchen started a decade ago with a slow cooker full of soup. Now, the soup kitchen at the Lighthouse Worship Center church serves more than 100 hot meals a week in a donated ...

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I was raised Baptist. My Irish Catholic father wasn’t crazy about us being raised in a protestant church, but it was how my mom was brought up, and she got carte blanche on being the architect of me ...

For more than 150 years, First United Methodist Church of Salinas, founded in 1870, has served as a house of worship and a harbinger of faith, with a wide reach into community on behalf of service and ...

The kitchen at Haymount United Methodist Church, functional but drab, got a fresh coat of paint and some much needed love when three girls from Girl Scout Troop 830 took on renovations for a service ...

It started as a question. When committee members who have overseen construction of a commercial kitchen at Zion Lutheran Church talk about the project, they say it all started with a question about ...

PEORIA – For Jam Rohr, preparing and consuming vegan food is her jam. One of several jams, actually. When the local artist got into a jam as she tried to keep up with her expanding vegan ...

After I began writing about abuse within faith communities, a clergywoman I’ll call Stephanie Green reached out to me with her story. She was the associate pastor of a large congregational church in ...