Do You Have an Addiction to Comfort?

Fifty years ago, Kay Cronin, wrote a book titled “Cross in the Wilderness,” chronicling how, in 1847, a small band of Oblate missionaries came from France to the American Pacific Northwest and, after some bitter setbacks in Washington state and Oregon,...

Consumer Protection Chief Seeks Allies in Faith Leaders

WASHINGTON (RNS) The architect of the Obama administration’s new consumer protection bureau met with faith-based groups Tuesday (Feb. 8) in a bid to shape the agency’s work as a moral crusade. “The most recent financial crisis caused many to question the moral...

Dedicated to God

Sermon delivered by Joel Snider, pastor of First Baptist Church in Rome, Ga., on February 7, 2010. 1 Samuel 1:21-28 Meditation Text: I read because my father read to me.  And because he’d read to me, when my time came I knew intuitively there is a torch that is...