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Associated Press Rev. Chip Stokes bestows a blessing on Thomas Barken-Stewart, 3, who is with his mother Jacqueline Barken, and brother, Joshua Barken-Stewart, during a service at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, in Boca Raton, Florida, which offers a special, shorter service for families with small children.
Shorter services attract busy parishioners
 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Some churches struggling with shrinking attendance are shortening their traditional Sunday services, promising to get a generation with limited attention spans out the door...
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Church Calendar
Special services The West Kentucky Christian Alliance will meet at Dolly McNutt Plaza at 6 p.m. Monday as well as Oct. 22. If rain, it will be in the McCracken County Public Library. The WKCA’s ...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Ashley Langwell fills a bucket with grapes to be pressed at Westside Ministries in Turlock, Calif. The ministry uses donated fruits and vegetables to make juice as part of meals for needy families.
Church turns fruit into juice to feed families
TURLOCK, Calif. — Everyone knows that old saying about what to do when life gives you lemons. With the donations of several bins of apples, pears, grapes and, yes, lemons — and with the help of ...
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Pastor finds peace with cancer
COLUMBUS, Ind. — Rob Craig’s untouched slice of his 66th birthday cake sat at the end of the table Tuesday morning in his office at First Presbyterian Church. “I’ll get to it,” he said with a sm...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Stacey Gonzales (right) with daughters Sabrinna, 13, Sienna, 14 (second from left) and Savannah, 16 (far left) read Proverbs in their dining room/classroom together Sept. 20, in their Oakdale home. There are four desk areas in the room, one for each teen and one for mom.
Parents opt out, tackle teaching on their own
MODESTO, Calif. — As neighborhood schools grapple with pared budgets and pressure-cooker tests, not every family shares the strain. For a hardy few, the living room doubles as classroom, and kids d...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Bill Dauster stands in his office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Dauster spends his professional life drafting laws for the U.S. Senate and spends much of his free time studying a very different kind of law, the Torah.
Law writer studies Jewish law
WASHINGTON — Bill Dauster spends his professional life drafting laws for the U.S. Senate. He spends much of his free time studying a very different kind of law — the Torah. By day, Dauster works...
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Special services Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church will ordain associate minister Aaron Thomas at 6 p.m. Sunday. The church is at 1201 S. 8th St. Rev. Dr. Calvin R. Cole is the pastor. Also t...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Owner Joanne Urbany (left) works with her daughter, Joanna, as they prepare for the opening of the Come Up Higher Christian Gifts & Books on Sept. 17 in Akron, Ohio.
Family journey leads to Christian bookstore
AKRON, Ohio — Joanne Urbany knows what it means to step out on faith. Urbany, 64, and her daughter, Joanna Halliburton, 23, both gave up jobs and the comfort of being near family in New Jersey t...
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Vatican newspaper calls ‘Jesus’ Wife’ papyrus unauthentic
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican newspaper has added to the doubts surrounding Harvard University’s claim that a 4th century Coptic papyrus fragment showed that some early Christians believed that Jesus ...
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Amish found guilty of Ohio religious hate crimes
 CLEVELAND  — Sixteen Amish men and women were convicted Thursday of hate crimes for a series of hair- and beard- cutting attacks on fellow sect members in a religious dispute that offered a rare a...
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