In answer to my request by mail, under date July 13, 1855, for a letter of dismission in fellowship and of recommendation to another church, I have received a copy of the Front Royal Gazette ...

Saint Polycarp, was a Christian bishop of Smyrna, the modern city of Izmir in Turkey.

The Christian church is silent at a time when clear and present human forces are molding the social world in morally indefensible ways. The church fancies itself as the moral leader of the world ...

Lastly, in a letter read over the pulpit in June 2023, the church encouraged members to, “study candidates carefully and vote for those with integrity, compassion, and service ... regardless of ...

Paul's letters, that these gods are nothing ... What 's important about the story of his martyrdom that the church of Smyrna wrote... was that it tended to present Polycarp's martyrdom as copying ...

Have you ever read St. Paul’s powerful letters to the church at Jerusalem? How about to the Damascenes? To the people of Caesarea Maritima? Obviously, you have not. But the fact that we do not possess ...

The Orthodox Church maintains, as her fundamental and indisputable ... bishop or a presbyter blesses this sacred union with a special prayer. In his letter to Polycarp of Smyrna, Ignatius the God- ...

King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” published 60 years ago this month, is so soaked in American history that we almost forget it was addressed not to the nation but to the White church. Its ...

From a legal perspective, the LDS Church is right. It is not fraud to hoard billions of dollars in their coffers and many global investments. Taking the legal perspective, however, the LDS Church ...

(This story was updated to accurately reflect the most current information.) A former Smyrna police detective has pleaded guilty in federal court to the coercion and enticement of a minor ...

On Sunday October 20, a major fire destroyed a family farm with a number of horses and colts lost in the blaze. Dispatched crews found a fully involved barn fire. Several animals were spared or saved ...

St. Polycarp of Smyrna, "Letter to the Philadelphians" c ... the authority of the Catholic Church which is clear on this point is of no small weight, where in the prayers of the priest poured ...