Like gospel music? Looking to hear some Christmas tunes live? Head over to Jesse Auditorium on the MU campus this Sunday, Dec. 21 at 3 p.m. to hear Bobby Jones from BET Gospel and Dottie Peoples, a frequent guest on the Jones’ show.
Tickets are $20 for balcony seats and $30 main floor seats and can be purchased at 409 Jesse Hall, A [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Bobby Jones and Dottie Peoples concert on Sunday
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Education director hired at Trinity Presbyterian Church
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christianity, Columbia Missourian, faith, Local, Missouri, religion, Stephanie Rapp, Trinity Presbyterian Church on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Trinity Presbyterian Church recently hired Jonathan Nevel as its first Director of Christian Education. According to the press release, Nevel will “work with the Rev. Rim Massey and the church’s Christian Education Committee to plan, design and implement Trinity’s programs for children, youth and adults.”
We look forward to Jon’s leadership of our Christian education programs [...]
New Sanctuary Movement, coming to a church near you?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christian, church, Columbia Missourian, Hindu, immigrants, Katie Rookstool, Muslim, New Sanctuary Movement, Sikh, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During the course of American history, there have been countless times where the religious have interacted with politics. Some of those instances have been a harmonious union, such as faith-based initiatives or even the right to worship guaranteed by the First Amendment. Other times the two seem to butt heads. It can be accurately predicted [...]
Top religion stories of 2008
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2008, Columbia, Madoline Markham, Missourian, Religion News on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It still hasn’t really hit me that the there is less than a month left of 2008, but the media have already begun to assess what this year’s top stories are. Time Magazine posted its top ten religion stories of 2008 here.
1. The Economy Trumps Religion
2. Never Count the Mormons Out
3. The Pope Wows the [...]
Interfaith Council of Columbia
Posted in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Local, Religion and Popular Culture, Religious Holidays, Religious Leaders, Uncategorized, tagged Buddhism, Caitlin Palmer, Christianity, City, Columbia, Columbia Missourian, government, holiday, Interfaith, Judaism, Local, Missouri, news, Thanksgiving on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I went to the Interfaith Council meeting last Wednesday, I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Yet as I sat at the tables set up for the forum, I realized… this is kind of a big deal.
The Interfaith Council has groups from all over Columbia, some churches and some volunteer and service organizations. It [...]
Of mice and quilts: The craft-faith connection
Posted in Uncategorized on December 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today’s Missourian has a story about the popular “church mice” sold each year at the St. Nicholas Advent Bazaar at Calvary Episcopal Church. Five inches tall, hand-sewn from gray felt and whatever their dozen or so creators dream up for costumes–silk flower petals for a Nutcracker dancing flower’s skirt, perhaps, or a bit of ribbon from an old Christmas [...]
More evangelical Christians adopting traditions of Advent and attitudes of advent
Posted in Christianity, Religion and Popular Culture, Religious Holidays on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Advent is a special few weeks in many Christian churches, especially in those with a more traditional and formal bent to their worship, who deck the halls–and pews, and pulpits, and hymnals–with special colors, decorations, prayers, hymns, and so on. I’ve had the opportunity to check out Advent activities at Columbia’s Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, and [...]
Measuring the economy by communion wafers?
Posted in Christianity, tagged Columbia, communion wafers, economy, Madoline Markham, Missourian, recession on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That’s not the first thing that I would have thoughts of, but it made sense after reading this interesting story in the Boston Globe profiling a Rhode Island company that bakes 80% of the country’s communion wafers (the story also has a cool video you should check out).
Their business is solely dependent on church attendance, and hence they [...]
Conservatives split off of Episcopal Church
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anglican Church, conservatives, Episcopal Church, Madoline Markham, Missourian on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We faith reporters talk a lot about how religion is all over the news because it’s so elemental to so many people’s lives, but it is rare that a religion-specific headline tops the news. But yesterday when I was on the New York Times website, this story about how theologically conservative Episcopal churches are breaking [...]
Hark, Christmas is coming!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cantata, Christmas, Columbia Missourian, festival, First Presbyterian Church, Grace Bible Church, Katie Rookstool, Missouri United Methodist, St. Andrews Lutheran, Unitarian Universalist Church on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanksgiving is over, and I think the world can safely say it is officially time to acknowledge the coming of Christmas. By now, Thanksgiving is almost a distant memory as many have gone shopping, tree cutting or into a gingerbread baking frenzy. With that, churches everywhere have begun to put the final touches on festivals, [...]
