Recently in Religion Category

Recently, on a very rainy Sunday night, a dear friend and I ventured out to First Baptist Church in downtown Columbia to hear a program of praise music by the well-known song leader of the Billy Graham Crusades, Mr. Cliff Barrows. I had heard him sing in person before and had also heard his recorded voice many times and was most interested in hearing him again...

What were the drugs of choice? Diet pills and then on to the heavy hitters: microdots, weed, Robitussin AC, BI's, intravenous cocaine -- stopped shooting up because my brother threatened to stop speaking to me. And then came the biggest threat to my life, crack cocaine...

Everyone is aware of the tremendous need for helping Haiti recover from the recent earthquake. And most of us have heard that Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. The Episcopal Church, specifically the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, has been involved with helping the Haitian people for about thirty years...

My husband, Fitz, and I went to Cuba in December of 2003 with ten other members of the United Methodist Volunteers In Mission. The team members were from several Conferences of the Southeast Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church. Our team leader was the Reverend Nick Elliot, a member of the South Carolina Conference and Southeastern UMVIM Director...