The handful of slaves who began worshipping at the centuries-old Buff Bay Independent Baptist Church, Portland sanctuary, in 1824 — 10 years before Emancipation — could not then have foreseen that ...

The liturgical calendar has a three-year cycle, repeating every three years, which determines the biblical readings for ...

More burial sites are forgoing pristine lawns for drought resistant plants and wildflowers that help wildlife. Efforts picked ...