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Community shares memories of Eliot Battle

Kellie Kotraba — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:57:17 +0000

When anyone asked Eliot Battle how he was doing, he would always answer, "Super."

Battle, a longtime Columbia educator, died Tuesday (June 11) from injuries sustained after a car crass Friday. He was 88.

Church holds active shooter training

Tony Nochim — Sat, 25 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Catholic church finds fresh ways to spread message in New Evangelization

Kellie Kotraba — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

There are enough former Catholics in the United States to make up a large Christian denomination of their own.

Porsha Williams shares challenges of Pagan conversion

Kellie Kotraba — Sat, 11 May 2013 15:45:03 +0000

Porsha Williams knows a thing or two about walls – metaphorical ones, that is. She’s been up against a lot of them, whether religious, psychological or cultural.

She describes herself as a “raised Christian, converted to Pagan woman.” And that conversion is the source of many of these walls.

LifeBridge Lutheran Church reaches “lost generation"

Evan Townsend — Sat, 04 May 2013 13:00:00 +0000

This story was produced in partnership with Columbia FAVS.

The band of LifeBridge Lutheran Church practices in the community room of an apartment complex each Sunday morning before service begins. Furniture is piled in the corner to their left, and gym equipment in the corner to the right. Though they don’t have their own building to worship in, it’s progress for LifeBridge – a year ago, the church didn’t even exist.

Wagner's 'Die Meistersinger' reaches back to Reformation, forward to World War II

Kellie Kotraba — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0000

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Hans Neumann recalls days in Hitler Youth

Meredith Turk — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:45:14 +0000

This story was produced in partnership with Columbia Faith & Values (ColumbiaFAVS.com).

Hans Neumann was raised in a small, forested village in East Prussia, just five miles from the Lithuanian border. He was forced to leave his home at the age of 15, near the end of World War II. Germany was losing, and Russian troops were moving west.

Prayers for Boston [STORIFY]

Kellie Kotraba — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:19:36 +0000

Two explosions went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon. Like people all across the country, many of those from around mid-Missouri are responding with Tweets of prayer.

Churches undergo stress before improvement with Healthy Church Initiative

Kate Grumke — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 12:30:00 +0000

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Druid community works to form new church

Evan Towsend — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Cicyfarth and four other members of the White Hawthorne Protogrove talk over food at a restaurant in downtown Columbia, planning their ritual to recognize the spring equinox.