IF the rural church is to be a power in the community, to assume the lead in modernizing and bettering its environment; if it is to fill its rightful place in the life of the nation to-day, it will ...

HOLMES, N.D. - Away in a manger was born Jesus Christ, surrounded by Mary, Joseph and animals. The scene is one that is remembered on Christmas in Christian churches across the world, and this week ...

MOUNDRIDGE — Brad Roth, pastor at West Zion Mennonite Church in Moundridge, has spent much of his life in rural settings and his career in ministry. Those experiences led him to write his first book — ...

A church near Mountain City, Tennessee. Photo by Shawn Poynter. “What is the most significant difference between urban and rural churches?” That was the question I was asked at a church conference. It ...

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 ...

RURAL RETREAT, Va. – A church in Rural Retreat just received national recognition for their work to help families through a program called CarePortal. The Rural Retreat United Methodist Church was ...

Mother was a devout person who prayed for rain in drought and sunshine to end a rainy spell. Our rural church, constructed by Swiss, German and Irish immigrants in the 1850s and blessed with fine ...

MINOT, N.D. - Some were farmers. Some were ranchers. All could be found on a regular basis at country churches throughout North Dakota. It was the rural church that brought people together like no law ...

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 ...

Carol Porter, 63 and no word mincer, sits in her modest kitchen in Euclid, Minn., and recalls the day her 118-year-old church was burned to the ground. “I was baptized, confirmed and married there,” ...

Superlatives abound as our society scrambles to understand what these things mean. Framed in an overarching narrative of the decline of American civility or debates over gun-politics or increasing ...