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Elby Frost 1923-2013 LANCASTER — The Rev. Elby Frost, 89, widower of Evelyn Frost, died Tuesday.  Born Aug. 2, 1923, he was the son of the late Wood and Sarah Hurst Frost. He was a member of the New Mission Worship Center in Danville. Frost...

This from the Religion News Service: Christian, Jewish and Muslim clergy, plan to lead a campaign in front of the Washington National CathedralFriday timed to mark the moment a week before when a gunman opened fire in a school in Newtown, Conn. But just...

The Rev. Louie Giglio withdrew Jan. 10 from giving the benediction at Barack Obama's second inauguration after an anti-gay rights sermon he preached in the 1990s surfaced. Giglio did not apologize for the sermon, but said that battling gay rights is not a...

Take the Spirit of America mobile kitchen, a stockpile of nourishing food and a corps of committed volunteers and you have a recipe for disaster relief. "Spirit of America is cooking out some awesome, hot food for the folks," Jim Plympton told us. He is...

The family that owns the Hobby Lobby gifts-and-crafts chain plans to give away a 217-acre  campus originally intended for the C.S. Lewis College in Massachusetts. The college failed to materialize and now the Green family is planing to give it away to...

Protestants, who have played a central role in the nation’s founding and development, no longer make up a majority of Americans for the first time in history, according to a new study released Tuesday....

An investigation by the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission into the racially charged comments by Richard Land concluded with two reprimands and the cancellation of Land's weekly radio program, reports Christianity Today....

New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow will speak at an event in March at Liberty University’s Wildfire “Men’s Impact Weekend.” Tebow will be the headline speaker at the 2013 Wildfire “Men’s Impact Weekend” March 8-...

The remnants of Isaac are still causing heavy rainfall in our area and flash flood warnings have been issued. The Red Crossoffers the following flood safety tips: • - People should listen to weather reports for updates and stay alert for extended...

NBC News reporter Louis Casiano has the embarrassing story of the first black president of the Southern Baptist Convention having to deal with a Southern Baptist pastor who refused to marry a black couple in his church: The leader and first African-...

Twitter gives the impression of being obsessed with mindless earthly trivia, from Justin Bieber's latest heartfelt tweet to his Beliebers to LeBron James' reflections on winning the NBA championship. But Atlanta-based Twitter executive Claire Diaz-Ortiz...

On Tuesday, history could be made at the annual Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans, as it may be electing the first African American president, and he's from New Orleans. Pastor Fred Luter of Franklin Avenue Baptist church is the man of the...