Devlyn Brooks is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and serves Faith Lutheran Church in ...

Several times a month, community columnists weigh in on matters of faith and values. The Faith and Values column appears Mondays, and features retired Methodist minister Paul Graves; FāVS News editor ...

Some 200 community members gathered Thursday to pray for Defiance and the surrounding communities during the 14th annual ...

Twenty years after he entered a Trappist monastery, Thomas Merton was reflecting on the failures of his past, and in doing so, helping the rest of us reflect on the failures in our past. He wrote in ...

The Merriam-Webster Word of the Year is "vaccine"; for the Oxford English Dictionary, it's "vax." Those are solid choices – vaccines are a game-changer. But for a word nerd like me, there's not a lot ...

Former President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama congratulated President-elect Trump on his election victory and urged the country to have “good faith and grace.” “In a country as big and diverse ...

My wife is a breast cancer survivor, as is her sister, who has been battling stage four cancer for the past eight years. Her cancer is spreading and she is about to start chemo again. My father died ...