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Religion

Spirituality underpins migrant activism in US borderlands

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Alvaro Enciso plants three or four crosses each week in Arizona’s desert borderlands, amid the yellow-blossomed prickly pear and whip-like ocotillo, in honor of migrants who died on the northbound trek. Each colorful wooden memorial denotes where a set of bones or a ...

Creation Festival postponed to next year

MOUNT UNION — Creation 2021 has been rescheduled to June of 2022, according to a press release from the festival’s organizers. The festival, normally held at the Agape Farm near Mount Union, has been rescheduled for June 29 to July 2, 2022. Tickets that have already been purchased will be ...

For every head shall be bald and every beard shall be clipped

Jeremiah 48:37 is a message of God’s judgment on the Moabites through His prophet. The message was one that every Jew could understand, because it was given in words and terms familiar to the people of Israel. The phrase about “every head shall be bald” was a thing of humiliation and ...

A Father’s Day message: A springtime cleanup

One positive thing that came out of our quarantine was that we cleaned the house from top to bottom. Not one cupboard, not one drawer, not one crevice escaped our attention. But Psalm 101 speaks of another type of spring cleaning. It speaks of cleaning up our lives, making the right ...

Vacation Bible School

Editor’s note: To have your church’s Vacation Bible School event listed on the Religion page, email ethompson@lewistownsentinel.com Fairview Bible Church Fairview Bible Church, 5290 PA-103, Lewistown, hold VBS with the theme Mystery Island from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 21 to 25. There ...

For his glory: Romans

Its high school graduation season. It’s a very exciting and stressful time for students, teachers and parents. Our prayers are with all our young people as they make the move into jobs or college or some new chapter of their lives. Most of us know what it’s like to do some foolish or ...