May 20, 2013
Faith & Family
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Julia Roberts of Bowling Green has a cup of fair trade coffee May 13 before Sunday school at the Presbyterian Church on 10th Street in Bowling Green.
Church council spreads message of good health
LEXINGTON — Parish nurse Jackie Graves sees her job at Second Presbyterian Church in Lexington as the perfect blend of faith and profession. “It is a wonderful opportunity to encourage a healthi...
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Special services  Mt. Moriah Men Ministry’s fourth annual “Men on a Mission” Conference has been scheduled for May 17-18. The featured speakers are both former Paducah residents: minister Danny ...
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Sometimes during dark days it appears God not there
Dear God, Here I am at 50. I wrote you a letter like this when I turned 40. So much has happened in the last year that some days it feels as if two decades have passed rather than one. I wrot...
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Grand Master Matthew Festing poses for a picture at the end of an interview Jan. 29 at the Magistral Palace of the Order of Malta in Rome's Via Condotti. Itís an ancient Roman Catholic religious order that boasts diplomatic relations with 100-plus countries, an aid group that runs hospitals, ambulance services and old folks' homes on six continents, and a nominally sovereign entity that issues its own stamps, coins, license plates and passports, yet has no state to call home.
At 900 years, Knights of Malta confronts modernity
ROME  — Matthew Festing — aka His Most Eminent Highness The Prince and Grand Master of the Knights of Malta — bounds into the sitting room of his magnificent Renaissance palazzo sweaty and somewhat...
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Blues Night concert for Mayfield shelter features musician France
Daniel “Boscoe” France, the 2012 nationwide King of the Battle of the Blues, will be the featured artist Feb. 14 at Mayfield First Christian Church’s Blues Night. The worship service and free co...
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Special services St. James Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, 800 Tennessee St., annual Youth and Young Adult Worship Service, 3 p.m. Sunday. Guest evangelist Sukreshia Bridgett of White Oa...
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Pluses of life often blind us to impending mistakes
The large snowflakes looked like hundreds of tiny crystal spider webs spread across the windshield of the car. It had spent a cold winter night outside at the home where we lived in the mountains s...
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The Rev. Julie Harley (center), 52, leads a prayer with her daughters Emma (left), 19, Rachel (second from right), 21, and parishioner Ann Armstrong (right), who prepared the lunch meal, Jan. 23 in Oak Park, Ill. The pastor is stepping down as lead pastor at First United Church of Oak Park as she battles a fast-worsening case of ALS.
Pastor finds self in need of others’ support
CHICAGO — Early in her pastoral career, the Rev. Julie Harley encountered a woman with ALS, bent over in a wheelchair. It struck her as a particularly cruel illness — incurable, often hitting in th...
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Daughter’s life left many remembering her lessons
Jocelyn never expressed an interest in being a teacher, but she taught many people lessons they say they’ll never forget. My daughter would turn 18 on Jan. 27. I want to share with you the lesso...
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Susan Slade reclines in her bed at her grandmother's home on Jan. 9  in Hurst, Texas, from which she, as an ordained minister, counsels people by phone through her own Precious Jewels ministry.
Texas woman doesn’t let her circumstances impede her ministry
HURST, Texas — Susan Slade is certain that she’s on earth to help people find what they need. “My purpose is to encourage people to find their purpose in God and to express it,” she said. But...
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