Religion
Grave issues are at stake here
Q: While I was married, over 30 years ago, I had an affair with a man and we had a child. The father is Catholic and I am Jewish. He agreed that our daughter should be raised Jewish, since I never divorced my husband. (Updated: 07/04/09 6:50 AM )
Religion Notes / News of area faith groups
El-Bethel convocation (Updated: 07/04/09 6:50 AM )
Brace yourself for Lilith story
Q: When I was growing up, our family was very close to the church and we read the Bible at home. Recently, I was watching a TV show about things left out of the Bible. The part about Adam and Eve caught my attention. The program said Eve was Adam’s second wife. His first wife—I think her name was Lilly—was made from the soil of the earth. The program suggested that Lilly was evil and eventually died with a curse to women. Did Lilly really exist? People I’ve spoken to have never heard of her.— J. (Updated: 06/27/09 7:00 AM )
Religion Notes /News of area faith groups
Public novena July 8 to 16 (Updated: 06/27/09 7:00 AM )
Preparing for Parish Life Conference
LEWISTON— St. George is one of the oldest and most popular saints, and the parishioners of St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, on Saunders Settlement Road, belong to an ancient Christian church. (Updated: 06/21/09 7:26 AM )
Faith-related events
Following is a weekly listing of upcoming events of area faith groups held around Niagara County. (Updated: 06/21/09 7:26 AM )
Troubled by ‘cafeteria’ religion
Q: Beauty may be “in the eye of the beholder,” but what about religion? It’s incredible to me how many people today create their own sets of beliefs. It’s as if they see religion as a cafeteria. They go in with a tray and fill it with what they want. Of course, they don’t pick up anything that might negatively impact them. It’s as if they say to themselves, “I’ll take some grace, love, favor. I’m not going to put judgment on my tray, though; don’t need that! I’ll take some heaven for dessert. Done. Now I can lead my life the way I want.” What do you think of this?— A. (Updated: 06/20/09 6:45 AM )
Retired dentist, 93, to be honored
NIAGARA FALLS — Call it a meeting of the angels. (Updated: 06/14/09 9:26 AM )
Faith-related events
Following is a weekly listing of upcoming events of area faith groups held around Niagara County. (Updated: 06/14/09 7:17 AM )
Transplant put on the edge
Q: Nine years after moving to the Bible Belt of southeast coastal North Carolina, I’m still unable to find a new church home. While there are mainstream Christian churches here of the type to which I’d belonged in the liberal North and urban Midwest, their services are so heavily permeated by the culture of the Baptists and independent evangelicals that they’re almost unrecognizable to me. (Updated: 06/13/09 6:27 AM )
Youth pastor clues teens in on choosing life’s path
WILSON — Stephen Hay — not far from those teen years himself — has keen insight into the angst young people endure today. (Updated: 06/07/09 9:28 AM )
Faith-related events
Following is a weekly listing of upcoming events of area faith groups held around Niagara County. (Updated: 06/07/09 7:29 AM )
Mystery of life after death
Q: You’ve often written about seeing and knowing your loved ones in the afterlife. Recently, I read this comment by a Mormon clergyman: “Those who choose to follow his son, Jesus Christ, will have the opportunity to live as families throughout eternity.” This seems to imply that all non-Christians won’t have that opportunity. I consider this a form of bigotry or worse. (Updated: 06/06/09 7:00 AM )
Religion Notes /News of area faith groups
Lecture series announced (Updated: 06/06/09 7:00 AM )
New pastor relishes all the history surrounding Falls’ oldest church
NIAGARA FALLS — Early church members attended services in a log schoolhouse on what’s now Prospect Street. (Updated: 05/31/09 10:17 AM )
