Kathleen Melba Pate Wyche, 96, died February 7, 2025, in Holly Springs, Wake County, after a long illness ... She also served for a time as Nakina High School librarian. Subsequently she taught ...

Long even named Tyler (briefly ... in the Old Testament, became a deacon at Evergreen Baptist Church and a member of Israel Lodge No. 138. And by the time he died in 1969, he had secured a ...

Mary Franklin Knotts Van Meter, 88, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family on March 2, 2025. She was ...

“Men on the Crows’ Post are like flies now that I think of it,” Gray’s narrator continues. “I believe that just about all men in that community, at one time or another, have spent time at that spot.

“I have been singing Lift Every Voice and Sing my entire life and every time I sing this anthem I am immediately ... their voices and sing to the heavens,” said the song leader and deacon at First ...

Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier read her poem “135 Xs” and led a craft talk as part of the Pittsburgh Contemporary ...

There is no breath, no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers and sisters in Palestine. People attend the "emergency protest" organized ...

It’s possible to define deacons in a number of ways — by their ... Ordination usually follows a long period of discernment, theological education and pastoral formation, in some cases taking ...

Questions about the possibility of opening the diaconate to women were part of the conversation Feb. 21 at Rome's Basilica of ...