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A unique Christmas gift? A year of clean drinking water
Most people think of snow and Christmas going together, but some creative and generous folks think of water and Christmas. Specifically, clean water. Advent Conspiracy is a campaign I’ve mention...
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Barbara Resan (right) holds her dog, Sky, during a blessing of pets by the Rev. Michael Mohn outside the Frederick County Esther Boyd Animal Shelter on Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, in Winchester, Va.
Do animals have souls?
PARAGOULD, Ark. — Animals have irrefutably made a notable mark on human society throughout history. Whether used as a means of transportation, welcomed as loyal, loving and cuddly members of hum...
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Associated Press Ultra Orthodox Jews and children watch Hanukkah's fourth candle lights during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah on Dec. 11 in Jerusalem. The Jewish festival of light is an eight-day commemoration of the Jewish uprising in the second century B.C. against the Greek-Syrian kingdom, which had tried to put statues of Greek gods in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
The great Hanukkah gift debate
Hanukkah may not hold a candle to Christmas in terms of pop culture and pageantry. But as Adam Sandler pointed out in his hit “Hanukkah Song,” the holiday offers children one advantage: “Instead of...
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Jesus is God’s unique fingerprint
The fingerprint is such a wonderful mystery. Although man has used it for thousands of years as a unique identifier, how it actually forms is something that researchers haven’t quite put their fing...
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Special services Bells Chapel CME Church, 207 North Highland Drive, Fulton. Candlelight service at 3 p.m. Sunday. Rev. Benjamin Lewis of Phillips Chapel CME Church of Elkton is special speaker. ...
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Council steps down from pulpit after 59 years
More than half a century has passed since the Rev. Harold Council first led his fledgling congregation of 53 members in a brush arbor worship service in southside Paducah. And while that garden ...
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Special services St. James CME Church, 800 Tennessee St., Mildred Allen Senter Missionary Society, annual candlelight service, 4 p.m. Sunday. All missionaries and women ministers asked to wear w...
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Holidays should be about peace, love not stress
When yet another “evite” showed up in my inbox, I groaned internally. What, another Bunco bash? Another jewelry party or trunk show? When this happened a few Christmases ago, I was new to town and ...
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Associated Press Marissa Friedmann (center) and her friends (from left) Riley Roedel, Caroline Agostini, Lauren Jacobs, Emma Wiedler, Lily Franck and Sydney McComish, look at the baby outfit gift during Friedmann's birthday party on Nov. 9 in Crestwood, Mo. Friedmann decided that instead of gifts for herself, she wanted baby items to donate to Nurses for Newborns.
Charitable birthdays redefine giving for kids
 CRESTWOOD, Mo. — Marissa Friedmann’s mom wanted to go all-out for her daughter’s 9th birthday party — and for good reason. Marissa and her siblings had a tough year coping with their parents’ d...
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Associated Press A detail of "The Righteous Shall Receive a Crown of Glory," Brainard Memorial Window for Methodist Church, Waterville, N.Y., ca. 1901, is photographed while on display at the "Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion" exhibit at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York.
Tiffany church interior a landmark candidate
BALTIMORE — More than a few East Coast buildings contain a Tiffany stained-glass window or two. But one structure in Baltimore can boast much more — a complete interior created by the famed designe...
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