WAUKESHA – The sound, of course, had a familiar ring, but the blast of wind instruments drove the point home more boisterously: the Salvation Army’s bell-ringing season had begun. On Friday, the Salvation Army Waukesha kicked off its Red Kettle campaign with a ceremony featuring the Salvation Army Band playing while invited guests rang miniature…
It’s been almost 10 years since a white supremacist was welcomed into a South Carolina church and opened fire, killing nine people in a Bible study, including the Rev. Sharon Risher’s mother, two cousins and childhood friend. When the shooter, Dylann Roof, was sentenced to death in 2017, Risher believed he deserved to die. Over…
A Lutheran pastor accused of planting a recording device in the home of his now ex-wife was sentenced on Tuesday to serve a year of probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of possessing an instrument of crime. Thomas M. Glasoe, 49, pleaded guilty to the charge, which was amended from a third-degree felony…
WEST PALM BEACH — When the pastor knocked, his parishioner answered. She welcomed Pheguel Pierre Louis into her home, unsettled by the disturbing dream he said he had about her the night before. She was in trouble, Pierre Louis said, and he needed to pray over her. The pastor, 40, and the woman, 23, gave…
Former President Donald Trump-backed “God Bless the USA” Bibles were printed in China, according to the Associated Press, even as the Republican nominee has continuously criticized trade between the U.S. and China. The “God Bless the USA Bible,” named after the Lee Greenwood song frequently played at Trump rallies, touts itself as the “only Bible…
A couple months ago, I read a book about a healthy diet. The author promised if I just gave up grains, dairy, (except hard cheese), meat and out-of-season fruits, and nourished myself only on kale, broccoli, avocado, olive oil and nuts, I would live hale and hardy without heart disease, cancer, and arthritis into a…