The question before us seems simple enough. Yet the answer is a bit more elusive than it may appear at first glance. At its ...

Most Sunday mornings, Marcia Barker walks out of her house just before 8 a.m. and meets her friend in the middle of the road. Together, they walk across the quiet main street to church. The retired ...

Trust in institutions is cratering everywhere, but at least in urban and suburban communities, those institutions still exist. The same cannot be said for rural America. In the last few decades, rural ...

Last year, I visited a Methodist church in Colebrook, New Hampshire, a small town of about 2,000 people. On a typical Sunday, around 20 people attended the service at the Trinity United Methodist ...

COTTONWOOD, Minn. -- It wasn't the opportunity to spread the good news of the gospel that led the Rev. Mary Dodgson to take on a third congregation. It was her bank account. Ministers are finding it ...

Food insecurity continues to affect more and more families throughout Johnson County. There are dozens of food pantries set up to offer aid. And now Union Christian Church joins that list with “Last ...

West Prairie Lutheran Church was at a crossroads, says David Strand, a lifelong member. Attendance was dropping at the rural Kindred, N.D., church, averaging 30 people. Finances were dour. And members ...

``Part of the problem with rural churches is that old buildings don't appeal to young couples,'' said Robert Seater, pastor for New Horizon United Church of Christ in Wisconsin, recently created from ...

RURAL HALL, N.C. (WGHP) — It takes months of work and hundreds of people to bring together a live Christmas drive-thru. “It brought everybody together, it didn’t make no difference who you were or ...