A few times a month, community columnists weigh in on matters of faith and values. The Faith and Values column appears Mondays, and features retired Methodist minister Paul Graves, of Sandpoint; ...

Many Jews in Jesus’ day looked forward with hope to the end of the world. The Pharisees and Essenes did so, as did the disciples of John the Baptist and of Jesus. The world all around them was ...

Late last week, pro-life activists announced the forthcoming eviction and closure of an abortion center just a few miles from Washington, D.C. Late last week, Mercy Missions founder Lauren Handy ...

Luke’s Gospel is sometimes called “the Gospel of Prayer” because in it Jesus prays at the most important moments in his life and because it contains two substantial instructions devoted to Jesus’ ...

The worship symposium closing service will be led by the Calvin University Capella and Hope College Chapel Choir, directed by Mark Stover and Eric Reyes with organist Rhonda Sider Edgington. Nicole ...

Reading: Exodus 17:8-13; Psalm 121, R. Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.; 2 Timothy 3:14-4:2; Gospel – Luke 18:1-8 We live in very volatile times. With the corruption issues ...

I have to confess at the start that the parable of the persistent widow baffles me. It raises more questions than it answers. Are we really expected to pester God in prayer the way the widow pesters ...