This has been traditionally called the "birthday" of the Church, that day ... Mother of the church would "lead Christians to honor Mary even more and to call upon her with still greater confidence." ...

The Akathist Hymn is a profound, devotional poem, which sings the praises of the Holy Mother and Ever-Virgin Mary. It is one of the most beloved services in the Orthodox Church ... Orthodox Christian ...

On the first day of the Republican National Convention ... Ard is the best since Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on ...

After losing her husband to lung cancer and discovering that the housing project where she lived sat on a toxic waste dump, she began to organize and advocate in a way that continues to reverberate to ...

When your mom isn't around anymore, this day can be incredibly ... commemorates their mother’s life and the loss, like planting a flower bush, sewing a craft, writing a poem, releasing a balloon ...

On May 8, 1905, Mother Jarvis died of heart complications. Anna, by then a young mother herself, was devastated by the loss. In 1906, she invited friends and family to a special church service to ...

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Ephriam David Tyler, the namesake of Ephriam in the Old Testament, became a deacon at Evergreen Baptist Church and a member of Israel Lodge No. 138. And by the time he died in 1969, he had secured a ...

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I thought your mother was the cat’s meow. She would flirt with me in the most innocent ways,” Clinton, 78, said in his eulogy.