LONDON (AP) — Thousands of Christian churches across the world are now using portable card readers or apps to take donations as people increasingly stop carrying cash on them. The Church of England says 16,000 religious sites now have access to portable card readers. In the U.S., hundreds ...

About $11,000 was raised by the Serra Club of North Central North Dakota at the Big Smoke event held in Minot as a benefit for seminarians and others in religious formation, according to a press release from Grace Fisher. According to Michael Ruelle of Minot, president of the club, the money ...

Minot Christian Women’s club will host a special nondenominational luncheon from 12:15 to 2:15 p.m. Tuesday at Minot’s Grand Hotel. The event will honor the club’s 50-year history as well as its guiding leadership program, Stonecroft Ministries, which is celebrating 80 years. The ...

LAKE METIGOSHE – A groundbreaking ceremony will be held on Sunday at 10 a.m. for an approximately $3.5 million addition to Metigoshe Ministries’ Lakeside Christian Center. Metigoshe Ministries is located at 165 Lake Loop Road E., in the southeast corner of Lake Metigoshe near ...

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My greatest fears and life wounds are: the fear of rejection, abandonment, loneliness and failure. Growing up I felt “poor” so my entire life the spirit of money has whispered in my ear that money would protect me from my fears; money would insulate me from the pain of rejection, ...

My father, if alive, would have been 83 today. It’s been five and a half years since his death, but sometimes he still feels so near.
Dad’s influence drew me to local poet Timothy Murphy. Though they never met, each time I visited Tim, Dad’s ghost seemed within reach. It was Dad, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A new survey has found that the majority of U.S. Catholic religious orders believe women should be allowed to serve as ordained deacons, lending support to an issue currently under study at the Vatican amid pressure for women to be given greater roles in the ...

I have two recurring dreams. In the first dream, I show up to attend a church service and someone tells me that I am preaching. I calmly reply no, I am only here to attend. Others enter the discussion and soon everyone is convinced I am supposed to speak. the more I resist, the more they ...

Minot Christian Women’s club invites all Minot area women to participate in a special nondenominational luncheon from 12:15 to 2:15 p.m., on Tuesday, Aug. 14 at the Grand Hotel. The event will honor the club’s 50-year history as well as its guiding leadership program, Stonecroft ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Retired Seattle Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen, whose outspoken support for nuclear disarmament, gay rights and an expanded role for women in the church made him one of the most controversial U.S. bishops, has died at 96. Hunthausen died Sunday at his home in Helena, ...

Recently, students from Black Forest Academy in Germany, where we used to teach, were planning their annual spring break service projects. Student groups had met several times planning practical helps for orphanages, schools, churches and homes for the needy. They studied ways they could serve, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican-approved journal has dismissed "prosperity gospel" as a pseudo theology dangerously tied up with the American Dream and President Donald Trump's politics, launching its second major critique of American evangelicals in as many years. Two of Pope Francis' top ...

If you have questions or comments about the Religion Page, or if you have story ideas, call Andrea Johnson at 857-1945. Reflections and Church Bulletin items should be mailed to: Andrea Johnson, Minot Daily News, P.O. Box 1150, Minot, ND 58702 or e-mailed to: ...

Deaconess Kelly Jacob recently joined Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch as Spiritual Life Coordinator, according to a press release. In her new position, Jacob will care for the spiritual needs of the residents of Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch in Minot through the presentation of the Gospel, scriptural ...

Minot Christian Women’s club will host a nondenominational luncheon from 12:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m., on Tuesday, Aug. 14, at Grand Hotel, 1505 N. Broadway, in Minot. The event will honor the club’s 50-year history as well as its guiding leadership program Stonecroft Ministries, which is ...

There are a lot of voices in the world today. Some are wise, informative and helpful. Most are driven by an agenda and/or mandate to sell you something. A study in 2007 found that Americans have gone from being exposed to about 500 ads a day back in the 1970’s to as many as 5,000 a day today. ...

The public is invited to attend a concert with Heavenly Harp, featuring Karin Gunderson and her son Ryan from Phoenix, Ariz. Gunderson is a graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., and author of “Encounters with Heaven - Stories of God’s Surprising Presence.” Ryan began playing ...

Rev. Josh Huseby has returned to Minot to serve at First Baptist Church in Minot as associate pastor of worship arts. He was previously the worship pastor at First Baptist Church for seven years before he moved to Oswasso, Okla., where he was worship minister for four years at First Church. ...

Members from nine Minot churches will gather for an As One service in the Oak Park band shell at 10 a.m. Sunday. Pastor Steve Oster of Cornerstone Presbyterian said he expects up to 1,000 people to attend the service, which will be followed by a potluck in the park after the service. Oster ...