“The church is not for the righteous — it’s for the sick,” Russell Steel remarked. “We’re all sick because we’re all sinners.” Steel, the new pastor of Iola’s First Baptist Church, hopes to bring a…

MORAN — “I can’t wait to see what the Lord has in store for southeast Kansas,” exclaimed Pastor Marsha Sue Mitchell. “I really believe there is something special fixin’ to happen in this area.” Mitchell’s…

A church is much more than a physical building, Father Daryl Stanford notes. A vibrant, healthy church is one that connects with and serves the community, he said. That’s part of Stanford’s draw to St.…

“For me, everything is art,” said Father David Michael, the new pastor for St. John’s Parish. Indeed, it’s an approach the 46-year-old takes to life itself, whether it involves the complexities of mission work, cooking…

Austin Hendrix has been called to serve. He may only be 21, but the 2018 Crest/Allen Community College grad has become the newest senior pastor at Community Church of the Nazarene in Iola. Initially inspired…

As of Wednesday afternoon, Kansas suddenly looked clearer, disease-wise. That’s when the Kansas Department of Health and Environment released the the names and places associated with active outbreaks of COVID-19 across the state. (See below)…

At any other time, in a predominantly Christian nation that enshrines freedom of worship in the Constitution, the news would sound absurd or terrifying: “Pastor arrested after holding church services.” But that’s what happened this…

ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Jimmy Carter was already “up and walking” just a day after undergoing surgery to relieve pressure on his brain from bleeding linked to recent falls, his pastor said. The Rev.…

After Thursday night, I’ll never see my pastor in the same light. He washed my feet. And yes, those of others, as an example of Jesus’s humility to his disciples during the Maundy Thursday service.…