Only once in my life have I composed a piece of music—if I can use the word compose—the main reason being that I am not a musician. But for some reason, putting new melodies to familiar words from ...

ONE of the Church’s steadfast companions on the journey of Lent has customarily been the penitential psalms. These are the ...

Midweek Lent services begin at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 301 North Main Street, Jenera, on Ash Wednesday, March 5, ...

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12 (Psalm 51:1-17); 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 ...

deliver me for the sake of thy steadfast love.

The desert helps us to encounter God by burning away our delusions and scorching our self-deceptions. It is a hostile ...

Muslims believe Hajj offers a chance to wipe clean past sins and start anew before Allah. Additionally, the act of performing ...

King David refers to it in Psalm 51:5 (see top). Job declares in poetic fashion: Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble...Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?

MOST readers will instantly turn the page or click another story after reading the headline. That pretty much answers the ...

Allowing ourselves to be reconciled with God is the true meaning of Lent, which prepares us to celebrate the salvation ...

WE FACE THAT time of year when, liturgically, we begin to move from light to darkness, even though the heavens have it the other way round — each day now is longer than the one before it. My husband ...