"When Christ came into the world, he said: 'Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; in holocausts and sin offerings you took no delight. Then I said, "As is written ...

Christmas—and its ubiquitous cheer—is already everywhere. And when life is not exactly cheery, it can be hard to celebrate “Joy to the World.” That’s why pastor Louie Giglio, the founder of Passion ...

Changes are coming to Advent United Methodist Church. Over the next year and a half, the church plans to build a new sanctuary that will connect to its education building. But that wasn’t the original ...

It’s not uncommon for churches to change their pastors every few years. But that’s not the case at Advent Lutheran Church, 5001 NE Fourth Ave. in Boca Raton. Advent Lutheran has been blessed with the ...

ROME – As the Church begins its Advent and Christmas seasons, the pastor of Gaza’s lone Catholic parish stressed the importance of stepping up one’s spiritual life amid the tragedies of war, and said ...

St. John’s Episcopal Church of Catharine has been inviting the community to its Advent services as the Rev. Michael Hartney celebrates his final Advent season before his retirement in April, closing ...

Church of the Advent, the cathedral for the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama in Birmingham, has a new worship and liturgy minister. Breaking with tradition, he's not an Episcopal priest, or even an ...

Although 40-year-old Rev. Bret Hays may not be a youngster anymore, he might feel that way as he gazes up at the cross beams and into the pews of Advent Church, the third oldest Episcopal building in ...

I entered parish ministry with a fair amount of idealism, particularly liturgical idealism. Inconveniently, the liturgical proclivities I picked up in seminary were not especially popular with my ...

When the Rev. Ronald Dingle of Advent Lutheran Church in Boca Raton needs a lift, he’ll go next door to visit the parish school. Small wonder. As soon as he arrives, the children happily mob him. As ...

One day in 2018, a homeless man stopped in at the Moravian Center of Lancaster, next to the bus terminal in the city, asking for a bus ticket so that he could visit his wife in the hospital. He left ...

The symbol associated with St. Andrew the Apostle is the X-shaped cross, also known as the saltire cross. I love the simplicity of this symbol and its ubiquity in flags, especially the Scottish flag.