OVERVIEW | VOTING RIGHTS | FARM BILL RENEWAL | FEDERAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT REFORM | GLOBAL HIV/AIDS FIGHT THROUGH PEPFAR | AUGUSTA VICTORIA HOSPITAL AND EJHN FUNDING | IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT FUNDING | ADDITIONAL PLANNING RESOURCES August Recess is a congressional tradition that brings heightened opportunities to reach out to your federal
Clues for All Churches from Research on Very Large Churches The Hartford Institute for Religion Research consistently produces reports about congregational life in the United States that show trends important for church leaders to understand. Their Faith Communities Today research provides snapshots of congregations of all sizes across religious traditions
As some of you must already be aware, the country I come from used to boast she was “the eldest daughter of the Church,” a nation born on Christmas Day of the year 499, when King Clovis was baptized with several thousand of his axe-wielding warriors. This gave him the
Charles Portis’s True Grit, first published as a serial in The Saturday Evening Post in 1968, is a story of the open road in the American West—“an epic” and “a legend” of a story, in fact, if one gives credence to the Washington Post review published upon its release. It is
Maurine Some events from the past are tipping points, that is, if they had had another outcome than they did, our world would be utterly and completely different, maybe unrecognizable to us. The events in the scriptures we talk about today are one of those key tipping points in history
The Spiritual Consequences of Intellectual Impatience by Stephen Rankin We live in a society that assumes that faster is (always) better. In the 1950s, computers used vacuum tubes or transistors to process a thousand to several thousand bits of data per second. Today, the micro-processing speed of computers is
Photo Credit: Armando Loho | Generated with AI June 2026 offered a sobering reminder that humanitarian emergencies rarely occur in isolation. Around the world, armed conflict, climate-related disasters, economic instability, hunger and disease are converging to create unprecedented levels of human suffering. At the same time, humanitarian organizations are being
Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows. This Sunday is the Sixth Sunday after Trinity. The Scripture readings in the season of the church year focus on the Christian faith and way of life. Being a Christian involves more than attending church services, hearing sermons, taking communion, giving to the support