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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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 ...

Janie Duncan, 71, sat on her wheelchair just outside the Foothill Kitchen where she barked orders through the serving window. “Are you done with the salad? … We can’t get this pie done because we got ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A church on the City of Buffalo's lower West Side, Holy Cross Church, unveiled its renovated kitchen on Wednesday. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center provided a grant to renovate ...