It’s Not Just about the Numbers
Recently, the Pew Research Forum released a study concerning the religious landscape in America. The results are sobering for those of us in church work and re...
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The Lone Walk of the Massachusetts Governor
On January 3, 1884 Massachusetts Governor Benjamin Butler left his office in the Massachusetts State House for the last time and began a tradition that has come...
Text of Joint Declaration Signed by Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch
Vatican City, November 30, 2014 (Zenit.org) | Here below is the Vatican-provided text of the joint declaration signed by Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch B...
Presidential Proclamation — Thanksgiving Day, 2014
THANKSGIVING DAY, 2014 – – – – – – – BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Thanksgiving Day ...
Violence in America
I have not watched much of the coverage of the violence in Ferguson Missouri and other cities around the country. On Tuesday I waited for the announcement of t...
The First Thanksgiving Proclamation
June 20, 1676 “The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr with the Heathen Natives of t...
1783 Thanksgiving Proclamation
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By His EXCELLENCY John Hancock, Esq. GOVERNOR of the COMMONWEALTH of Massachusetts. A PROCLAMATION, For a Day of Public Thanksgiv...
Massachusetts Religious Leaders Joint Statement on Brutal Attacks at a Jerusalem Synagogue
“The senseless killing of people in any place must always be denounced, but that these brutal attacks in the synagogue in Jerusalem should have occurred a...
New Superintendent for the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home
BOSTON – Friday, November 7, 2014 — Governor Deval Patrick swore in Cheryl Poppe as superintendent of the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home, making her the first wom...
Britain’s Prince Charles urges religious freedom, tolerance
(CNN) — Britain’s Prince Charles has called on governments around the world to do more to ensure religious freedom and urged religious leaders to pr...