SUPERIOR, Iowa -- When this town's century-old United Methodist church was shuttered last December, it became another among many closed in rural Iowa because of dwindling congregations and a lack of ...

Nov. 6—It's not uncommon for area churches to engage in ministry work overseas, but now ministers are looking closer to home, wondering if small rural congregations can continue. The Rev. Dwight ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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Designated as Regional Heritage of Interest in 2025, this church owes its recognition not to lavish decorations, but to its ...

The use of artificial intelligence text to image tools in the design fields, including landscape architecture, is growing. We present parts of our research where we explored the integration of AI text ...