December 9, 2017, 6:00am Churches & Religion
When Jesus walked this Earth, he hardly ever asked people where they had been. He was much more interested in where they were going, and how they would finish their race. Read story
December 9, 2017, 6:00am Churches & Religion
Given the myriad self-storage units around our community, you might agree that we have a problem letting go of things. In drawers, closets, garages, shops, sheds and the above-mentioned units we keep, collect, hoard and store far more stuff than we will ever need or use. Read story
December 2, 2017, 6:16am Churches & Religion
The members of Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, silently filed into the chapel. Within minutes, they were singing — first in unison, then in a transfixing, layered harmony that reverberated off the marble floors, wood-paneled walls and cathedral ceiling. Read story
December 1, 2017, 10:14am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis asked for forgiveness Friday from refugees in Bangladesh for all the hurt and persecution they have endured, demanded their rights be recognized and pronounced the word he had so assiduously avoided only days earlier in Myanmar: “Rohingya.” Read story
November 30, 2017, 9:58am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis demanded Thursday that the international community take “decisive measures” to resolve the causes of the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, breaking his recent silence over what the United Nations has declared to be a textbook case of “ethnic cleansing.” Read story
November 28, 2017, 9:29am Churches & Religion
Pope Francis insisted Tuesday that Myanmar’s future depends on respecting the rights of each ethnic group, an indirect show of support for Rohingya Muslims who have been subject to decades of discrimination and a recent military crackdown described by the U.N. as a textbook campaign of “ethnic cleansing.” Read story
November 25, 2017, 6:00am Churches & Religion
The book at the center of three major world religions got its own museum in the heart of the nation’s capital on Saturday. Read story
November 24, 2017, 6:05am Churches & Religion
Mother Joseph and her fellow Sisters of Providence arrived in Vancouver on Dec. 8, 1856. Read story
November 22, 2017, 4:30pm Churches & Religion
People lined up from the lower hall of the Proto-Cathedral of St. James the Greater to the sidewalk, waiting to get inside for a hot meal. Read story
November 18, 2017, 5:52am Churches & Religion
When University Unitarian Church leaders asked their congregation for thoughts on its $17 million renovation of their almost 60-year-old church in Ravenna, the response was mostly typical of a liberal Seattle church. Read story
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