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Worms, goat all part of 'Animal Crackers' bible school
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DURHAM -- The worms and the goat were a big hit this week at "Animal Crackers" Vacation Bible School at St. Philip's Episcopal Church downtown. It was a hands-on way for children to learn about caring for God's creation. |
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Churches rise to the occasion as need grows
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DURHAM -- In church pews across the country today, a common lectionary will be read -- the New Testament book of Mark 4: 35-41. Jesus and his disciples are in a boat when a storm comes up. Jesus stills the storm and says to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?" |
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Durham church helps revive spirit of love in Haiti
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DURHAM — Several Durham churches are involved in some way with the Rev. Leon Dorleans, a pastor to the people of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Dorleans has built churches, a school, an orphanage and adult education centers. People in the Durham community, many connected to Duke, make regular trips to Haiti to assist Dorleans. |
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Vatican slams priest's comments on wartime pope
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The Vatican has condemned as "unjustified and inopportune" a claim by a church official that pressure from Jewish organizations is delaying the beatification of Pope Pius XII, the wartime pontiff who critics say didn't do enough to stop the Holocaust. |
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Before seminary, mission in Romania
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DURHAM -- This fall, Justin Clark and Jeremy Hartman will be roommates at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest. They both want to go into ministry, but first they'll spend almost a month of their post high school graduation summer in Romania. |
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Florida's 'Father Oprah' joins Episcopal Church
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A popular priest known as "Father Oprah" said it wasn't an easy decision to sever ties with the Roman Catholic Church amid a scandal over tabloid photos of him kissing and hugging the woman he loves. |
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During the recession, stepping out on faith
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DURHAM -- In this our Great Recession, Katina Harris is prepared. The Durham Public Schools bus driver knows that the economy has made job security precarious and life more difficult for everyone. |
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Members to put their 'feet to faith'
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DURHAM -- Faith without works is dead. Discussed in biblical Scripture, in particular the New Testament book of James 2: 14-26, works and faith are intrinsically linked. |
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Durham's rock: 100 years of Ebenezer
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DURHAM — A cluster of trees and the sound of traffic whizzing by on the Durham Freeway camouflage the history of a block of Humphrey Street in East Durham, once called Glenn Street. The street was chopped in half when what was then called the East-West Expressway came through the Bull City in 1968. For Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, it meant they had to move over to 2200 S. Alston Ave. and build a new church home. |
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EBENEZER TIMELINE
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100 years of Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church
1909: Nine people hold prayer meetings in the home of Celia Collins on Bailey Street. Bailey Street is gone now, reduced to green overgrowth on the side of the Durham Freeway, which took the land for the on and off ramp for the exit onto N.C. 55. |
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Faithful gather on Day of Prayer
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CHAPEL HILL -- With feet firmly planted on the sod but pleading hands and aroused souls stretched toward the heavens, some 70 Christians swayed, smiled and sang to acoustic guitar accompaniment the Chris Tomlin hit song "God of This City." |
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Church's music hut was unemployed man's therapy
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DURHAM -- Half a dozen 2-year-olds jumped up and down to the beat of their own drums on a sunny spring afternoon. Literally. The children of Yates Baptist Child Development Center have a Jamaican steel drum and bongo drums among the instruments in their new outdoor music hut constructed by one of their dads. |
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Play tells tale of an alcoholic abuser healed through God
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DURHAM — Roy Dunkins has dealt with his past alcohol abuse. But the character in his play, “The Whole House,” has not. Nor has he acknowledged God’s blessings in his life. The play about a family coming to terms with the past will be performed in Oxford May 9 and at the Durham School of the Arts next month. |
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Church members reach beyond their walls
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PITTSBORO -- You won't find Chatham Community Church's usual 150 Sunday churchgoers worshipping together Sunday morning. Instead they'll be living their faith in various places around the county from 9 a.m. to noon. |
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Pope deplores priests' infidelities to their vows
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Pope Benedict XVI deplored priests who were unfaithful to their vows and called Thursday for a "frank and complete acknowledgment" of the Catholic Church's weakness in a letter to priests around the globe. |
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