Corn residue can be a valuable grazing resource for cattle. This year, especially with a fairly dry fall and start to winter, stalks have maintained quality and been available for grazing for quite ...

I had heard the story before. One night, sitting in our old van in the driveway, 12-year-old me gathered the courage to ask my father what Jesus had to do ...

Fasting is hard because self-denial is hard (discipline), and overindulging is not rewarding (regret). It becomes a ...

Strib Voices publishes a mix of material from 11 contributing columnists, along with other commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• For me, this time of year used to ...

Print book sales remain more or less the same — but an increasing number of people are buying a Bible for the first time.

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

I think it was Gene Autry who most guided my ideas about Santa Claus. When I was a child a vital part of Christmas was ...

A Baptist church in Franklin, Va., has embarked on a 75-week sermon series designed to show the Bible is more than a collection of stand-alone books in the Old and New testaments. “One of the things I ...

As local districts, including Ocean City, consider whether to allow Bible lessons during school hours, the battle lines drawn in Ohio could be a glimpse of public fights to come. In a recent vote ...

At the First Baptist Church of Suitland, just across the District of Columbia border in Maryland, a typical Sunday service includes coffee and pastries, warm greetings and a sermon delivered by ...

“Advent, meaning ‘coming’, to the Church Fathers, was the right naming of the season when light and life are fading. They urged the faithful to set aside four weeks to fast, give, and pray ...

He asked me why I'd stopped preaching, and told me about his community, and how they were between ministers. I helped with the preaching there. It was a beautiful congregation in which to heal.