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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Bishop Roland Baker follows along with the service with his Bible app during Bible Study on July 24, 2012. at Apostolic Church in Auburn Hills, Mich.
Digital version of Bible popping up in more pews
 DETROIT — It’s Tuesday evening Bible class at Apostolic Church in Auburn Hills, Mich., but it feels a lot like a Sunday church service. The praise team has sung spirituals, and the pastor, the ...
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McClatchy-tribune News Service Summer Golden (right) is with Silence is Golden, a mime ministry, and also performs with UniverSoul Circus. Behind her is Lanese Jefferson, of Rhema Word Mime in Detroit, Michigan, as they join forces for a performance at Chapel Life Church in Detroit.
Black churches combine pantomime and Christian message
DETROIT — On stage in a church on Detroit’s east side, Myra Morrison thrust her right fist down in front of her body and pulled it up slowly — as if she was yanking out her soul and delivering it t...
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Labels can turn people into one-dimensional entities
Dear Jocks, Nerds, Loners, Stoners, Rednecks, Preps, Emos, Skaters, and everyone else at school: It’s a drag to be labeled. Even when that label is a supposed “good label,” such as “Popular.” It...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Lynne Mapes-Riordan (left) shown July 15 in Evanston, Ill., wants the opportunity to enter the Catholic Church's deacon formation program, which does not allow women. She would like to spend a year and have the choice to continue to become a deacon. Here, she is in the Sunday Mass procession at St. Nicholas Church in Evanston. At right is visiting pastor Father Casmir Damor.
Parishioner leads charge to allow women deacons
CHICAGO — Lynne Mapes-Riordan of Evanston, Ill., hopes women will one day serve as Roman Catholic deacons. After 800 years, she could be one of the first. Growing up, she never gave ordination a...
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Church calendar
Special services Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 1213 Walter Jetton Blvd., will honor its minister of music (George Donelson) at 6 p.m. Saturday. Rev. Michael J. Wade is host pastor.  Com...
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Associated Press The 20th century Ecce Homo-style fresco of Christ before (left) and after (right) is displayed in this undated combination photo. An amateur artist Celia Gimenez, 80, took it upon herself to restore it in the church of the northern Spanish agricultural town of Borja.
Painting of Christ disfigured in Spain
MADRID — A small Spanish town is trying to figure out what to do with a 20th-century painting of Christ that has been disfigured by a local artist who was trying to restore it. Juan Maria Ojeda,...
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Catholic school enrollment up in tiny Kansas district
OST, Kan. — While many rural schools are struggling to survive as their student population declines, St. Joseph’s Catholic School in Ost, a far southeast Reno County community that barely qualifies...
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Church calendar
Special services The White Oak Missionary Baptist Church will observe its 132nd anniversary at 3 p.m. Sunday. The special guests will be Rev. Dr. Gwendolyn Duncan, choir, officers, auxiliaries, ...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service New Life Evangelistic Church stands abandoned in Philadelphia's Fairhill section. The one-time Catholic church is in ruins, its timbers exposed and rotting.
Empty sacred spaces become white elephants
PHILADELPHIA — Hunger, health care, and urban violence are the usual subjects of concern when the Religious Leaders Council of Greater Philadelphia gathers for its semiannual meetings. But at th...
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Associated Press  Parishioners take communion at the Flora Bama Lounge, Package and Oyster Bar in Pensacola, Fla. The iconic bar, which sits on the Florida and Alabama line, is home to about 450 congregants of Worship at the Water, an outreach service of Perdido Key United Methodist Church.
Bibles, booze mix on Sunday mornings at iconic bar
PERDIDO KEY, Fla. — On a balmy Sunday morning at the Flora-Bama Lounge, Package and Oyster Bar, barkeeps set up their stations as churchgoers filtered in under a Jack Daniels banner. The iconic ...
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