AllSides Balanced Search reveals information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so you can get the full picture.
Apr 17 2024
News
Loss of historic churches certain to cause heartache
My wife and I attended a memorial service on April 15 held at the St. Joseph’s Monastery Church in Irvington. Sadly, on that very day, we read that this magnificent facility is on a list for possible closure (“Baltimore Catholic cutbacks: What to know about the archdiocese proposal,” April 15). What will happen to all the beautiful rose windows that call to mind Notre Dame in Paris? How about
Baltimore SunMay 02 2024
News
United Methodists vote to allow gay clergy. How will Texas churches respond?
Robert Blain, a Houston public high school teacher, saw many friends leave the United Methodist Church in recent years because of the denomination's ban gay clergy. But on Wednesday, Blain celebrated when reading news posted on X that the majority of UMC delegates at the annual General Conference in Charlottesville, N.C. agreed to remove a 40-year-old rule forbidding "self-avowed practicing
Houston ChronicleApr 25 2024
News
Your Church Drummer Has More and Less to Do These Days
It was a church drummer’s worst nightmare. In the middle of a service, David Wagner was playing “Heaven Invade” with his worship band when his in-ear monitors stopped working. Wagner posted a clip on Instagram of what happened. It includes the audio that should have been coming through in his monitors: a mix of the sound from the band, some added reverb, and of course, the click track—a
Christianity TodayMay 08 2024
News
Hero who tackled Pennsylvania church gunman breaks silence: 'My pastor's life was in danger'
The horrifying scene made national headlines — an armed man walking up to the front of a church and aiming a gun at the pastor in the middle of his Sunday sermon. He pulled the trigger. The pastor flinched and dove behind the pulpit. Witnesses heard a click, and then a miracle. The gun didn't fire. Deacon Clarence McCallister, who was operating a camera that recorded the entire ordeal on video
Fox News (Online News)May 05 2024
News
Tennessee authorities searching for truck linked to Bible burning near Greg Locke’s church
Middle Tennessee authorities are on the lookout for a large four-door truck possibly linked to a fire earlier this year that resulted in a significant number of Bibles being burned inside a utility trailer near Pastor Greg Locke’s church. Surveillance footage provided by the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office shows a truck, believed to be white or of a similar light color, fleeing the area around
The Christian PostApr 08 2024
News
Churches join others in observing eclipse
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (BP) — Northwoods Church joined others Monday in opening its doors for those wanting to see the last total eclipse to cross the U.S. for another 20 years. More than 100 people and multiple guests from the community took advantage of the view from the church’s property, said Pastor Bobby Pell. Northwoods used its association’s trailer with block party supplies to set up snack
Baptist PressApr 20 2024
News
Faith services for Oakland County area churches and synagogues
The following is a list of in-person and online worship services and events happening at churches and synagogues in the Oakland County area. Visit websites or call for service times and events. • Abiding Presence Lutheran Church, 1550 Walton Blvd., Rochester Hills, 248-651-6550, abidingpresence.org. Sunday worship services at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, virtual services are available on the website. •
Oakland PressMay 01 2024
News
A meeting at this Independence church may have had a role in shaping world history
Over time time an image can play a role that wasn’t originally intended. This postcard from the early 1900s is a good example. It shows Pleasant Street on the west edge of the Independence Square, looking north from Kansas Street. The building at the end of the block is the First Baptist Church. But it’s the red brick church with the big spire and round windows in the foreground that became a
The Kansas City StarMay 09 2024
News
ANOTHER Mega Baptism: Church Dunks 1600+ New Believers on Beach, 'The Spirit of God Is On the Move'
A Florida beach is once again the site of an amazing move of God where thousands were baptized in Jesus' Name earlier this week.
The Church of Eleven22 baptized more than 1,600 people on the shores of Hanna Park Beach in Jacksonville, FL Sunday.
"That's 1614 souls who've experienced God moving in their lives, have been saved by Jesus, and are now professing Him publicly as their
CBNMar 29 2024
News
Why Americans go to church
Guadalupe Navarro, left, Ivan Trejo, and father Ivan Trejo attend a special reading of the Gospel and blessing of palm branches for Palm Sunday at the Cathedral Madeleine in Salt Lake City on Sunday, March 28, 2021. If you’re heading to church this weekend for Easter, you may want to leave early to get a good seat. Faith leaders expect to see the typical surge in attendance on the holiday this
Deseret News