I have a theory that the church kitchen is the most contested domain in many congregations. If you want to understand the politics of a given church, start with the kitchen: who is in control, and ...

CARBONDALE – God’s Open Kitchen started a decade ago with a slow cooker full of soup. Now, the soup kitchen at the Lighthouse Worship Center church serves more than 100 hot meals a week in a donated ...

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The kitchen at Haymount United Methodist Church, functional but drab, got a fresh coat of paint and some much needed love when three girls from Girl Scout Troop 830 took on renovations for a service ...

Sue Mohle supervises Wednesday dinners at James Island Presbyterian Church. Here’s what she’s learned from volunteering to feed 200 people on a weekly basis: Mohle worked in the wine industry, and now ...

For more than 150 years, First United Methodist Church of Salinas, founded in 1870, has served as a house of worship and a harbinger of faith, with a wide reach into community on behalf of service and ...

I was raised Baptist. My Irish Catholic father wasn’t crazy about us being raised in a protestant church, but it was how my mom was brought up, and she got carte blanche on being the architect of me ...

PEORIA – For Jam Rohr, preparing and consuming vegan food is her jam. One of several jams, actually. When the local artist got into a jam as she tried to keep up with her expanding vegan ...

After I began writing about abuse within faith communities, a clergywoman I’ll call Stephanie Green reached out to me with her story. She was the associate pastor of a large congregational church in ...