Rick Cousins

Family Promise of Clear Creek (FPCC) is neither a church nor a faith-based non-profit. Instead it’s more like the Blood Center notes you see in Focus each week or the

Industrial customers who seek a wide variety of professional services might hesitate to ask for a business owner known as “Mister Peanut,” but that's

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems pervasive, all but ubiquitous, but you might well feel that faith would be the last place it should appear in force.

We've been looking at the overlap of online culture and faith, so the canonization late last year of a teenage computer programmer who was born in London and raised in Italy, might fit right in.

The media is filled with “silent crises,” and we have no intention of adding to that ongoing season of dread. That said, your pastor may be in need of some encouragement these days, especially if they are leading a smaller church.

Last week, we talked about pastoral burnout, but there are stressors on their families and other congregants as well. Secular psychology promises much, but often, believers feel more comfortable working through life's challenges with a fellow believer who uses scripture as their source for insight.

Finding faith in outer space has been an ongoing speculation for centuries now. The new movie, Project Hail Mary, doesn’t directly bear on this concept, but it does outline dramatic

Every congregation here welcomes new members, but how are folks moving here, or those returning to church after a season away, going to find yours among the 300 houses of

In the 1600s, no priest was better known for his charity and his compassion for the poor. So much so that he later became the patron saint of charitable societies.

There was a time before the Civil War when anyone here could be fined by the island's then-less-than-civil authorities — for teaching any enslaved person how to read.