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Kansas joins effort to save Utah crosses

May 28 at 12:07 a.m.

TOPEKA — Kansas has joined 19 other states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a dispute over crosses along Utah highways honoring state troopers who died while on duty.

Religion Calendar

May 21 at 12:06 a.m.

Recovery classes

Wed in faith: A celebration, an act of worship

BY HELEN T. GRAY, McClatchy Newspapers | May 21 at 1 a.m.

The Rev. Terry McCloskey has a joke he sometimes tells when conducting weddings at Redemptorist Catholic Church in Kansas City, Mo.

Non-Traditional Students Celebrate B'not Mitzvah

BY MARY MEEHAN, McClatchy Newspapers | May 20 at 4:01 p.m.

LEXINGTON, Ky. —It was a traditional rite of Jewish passage with a twist.

She's ready for role as ambassador-at-large

BY KATHY HANKS, Hutchinson News | May 14 at 12:07 a.m.

Suzan Johnson Cook is busy closing several doors in New York City, in preparation of opening one colossal door to the world.

How Different Religions Bury Their Dead

BY HELEN T. GRAY, McClatchy Newspapers | May 13 at 5:25 p.m.

In Islam, the deceased are to be buried within 24 hours.

Divine word, human errors

May 7 at 2:23 a.m.

The King James Bible was dogged by misprints and mistakes from the very first editions.

The evolution of the King's English

May 7 at 12:07 a.m.

The language of the King James Bible evolved from earlier translations, as illustrated in the first verse of the Gospel of John:

For 400 years, King James Bible has made its mark

BY ROBERT BARR, Associated Press | May 7 at 2:25 a.m.

LONDON — Every Sunday, the majestic cadences of the King James Bible resound in Her Majesty's Chapel Royal in London, in scattered parish churches in Britain and in countless chapels, halls and congregations around the world.

Religion Calendar

May 7 at 12:06 a.m.

Concerts

From Yahweh To Jesus

BY LU-ANN FARRAR, McClatchy Newspapers | May 6 at 1:29 p.m.

Psychologists call it "intrapsychic phenomenon." Mathematician and Catholic philosopher Blaise Pascal could describe the exact moments: Monday, Nov. 23, 1654, from 10:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.

4,000 volunteers turn out for Love Wichita cleanup

BY ANNIE CALOVICH, The Wichita Eagle | May 1 at 3:04 p.m.

Everyone has seen houses with debris piled up around the yard, porches sagging, weed trees out of control. But not everyone knows what it can be like to live inside such a house when you have no ability to fix things, how isolated and forgotten so many disabled and low-income people feel.