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...After an adult Grogan admits to his parents that he hasn't gone to church for years: "I froze, then turned back. As I did he threw himself against me and buried his face in my shoulder, locking me in a grip so tight it was if he would never let go. I felt him shaking, his chest lurching against me. Then I felt a warm wetness on my neck and heard his sobs, his jagged gasps. The man I had never seen shed a tear, my Rock of Gibraltar, was crying in my arms...
Sister Emmanuelle, born Madeleine Cinquin in Belgium, was a champion for the marginalized. A nun at 23, she taught literature and philosophy in Turkey and became an outspoken critic of the Roman Catholic Church's contraception policies. At 62, she was allowed to begin working with Cairo's poorest people. Sister Emmanuelle went on to found the Asmae Association to fight poverty and homelessness in countries such as Egypt, Sudan and India...
...Some churches' sites, like that of Flamingo Road Church in Cooper City, Fla., receive regular traffic year-round. Others, like the one from Impact Community Church in Elk Grove, Calif., draw visitors with specific sermon topics. Barry Smith, senior pastor at Impact, started an online confession board last spring to enhance his four-week sermon series on the theme of secrets. The idea, says Smith, "was not so much theological as psychological"--a way to aid people carrying the shame of long-held secrets. For at least two of his congregants, the effort was transformative. A former prison guard...
...wish that there were more of you,” Faust said to the five cadets and about 100 spectators on the steps of Memorial Church. “I believe that every Harvard student should have the opportunity to serve in the military, as you do, and as those honored in the past have done...
...chapel at Immanuel Presbyterian Church was filled to capacity last Saturday afternoon, with mourners moving up to the balcony. Much to the surprise of his family, hundreds of people - from infants to senior citizens - came to honor John Robert McGraham, a homeless man who was brutally murdered on Oct. 9. McGraham, 55, was doused with gasoline and set ablaze. Despite efforts of residents and shopkeepers to extinguish the flames, he died at the scene, on a sidewalk in front of a boarded-up dental office on the corner of West Third and Berendo streets in the mid-Wilshire area...