KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On the day the Boston Marathon bombing transfixed the world, Mark Watkins of suburban Kansas City, Mo., lay face to face with a crisis of life, death and faith of his own.
MIAMI — After 87 years, the University Baptist Church of Coral Gables, Fla., recently shed its name for something it felt was more forward looking — Christ Journey.
MONCKS CORNER, S.C. — There is no way we humans can exit this life without experiencing a considerable share of grief and loss.
BALTIMORE — When Nancy Aiken talks to students in Baltimore’s Orthodox Jewish community about domestic violence and sexual assaults, she asks the boys a simple question: How many of you want to grow up to be a perpetrator of violence?
The little boy announced worriedly that his bike had a broken chain. The family was going away the next day for spring break, and he’d planned to take the bike along.
CHICAGO — It has been 53 years, but the members of the Slovenian Catholic community in the Chicago area and around the world are only now finding closure in the death of their former Bishop Gregorij Rozman.
ORLANDO, Fla. — At funerals, Warren Hughes always finds a seat in the back where, when the preaching and praying begins, he can slip out discreetly. He doesn’t bow his head pretending to pray because he hasn’t believed in prayer, or God, since he was 30 years old.
SUMMIT COUNTY, Colo. — For the Brown family, skiing usually means missing church.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Some rabbis hired by long-established congregations are struggling to gain acceptance among their fellow clergy because they got their ordinations in 21st-century style: online.
DETROIT — When Thomas M. Dorsey was growing up, he didn’t realize that his father was a pioneer in gospel music.
SEATTLE — What’s black and white and silver and has a trunk the size of your college dorm room?
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Parish nurse Jackie Graves sees her job at Second Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Ky., as the perfect blend of faith and profession.
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