Frank Lockwood
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Church surprises priest with Mexico trip
posted: 03/24/2012 4:39 a.m. Discuss
Pope Benedict XVI is headed to Guanajuato, Mexico, this week, and at least one Roman Catholic from Arkansas has traveled there to see the pontiff.
Gospel singer releases patriotic CD
posted: 03/10/2012 3:38 a.m. Discuss
Best-selling Christian recording artist Twila Paris, 53, says the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed state-sponsored prayer and Bible reading in the public schools in 1963, but that Northwest Arkansas didn’t necessarily rush to obey the court’s mandate.
NLR church turns 100, gives $100,000 to schools, charities
posted: 03/05/2012 5:42 a.m. Comments 6
A North Little Rock church celebrated its 100th birthday by giving away $100,000 Sunday to central Arkansas schools and charities. Then it collected $160,000 in offerings to build Assemblies of God churches across communist Vietnam.
Itinerant museum
posted: 03/03/2012 3:24 a.m. Discuss
Wideman’s old Methodist tabernacle closed years ago, its congregation scattered and its sanctuary silent.
Huckabee’s campaigning, in Holy Land
posted: 02/25/2012 3:08 a.m. Discuss
This week, while the 2012 Republican presidential candidates are trudging across Michigan, 2008 GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is enjoying the view from Mount Zion.
Partisanship has U.S. stuck, Huckabee says
posted: 02/16/2012 6:13 a.m. Discuss
Four years after his own long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination, former Gov. Mike Huckabee told the North Little Rock Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday evening that there’s too much partisanship and not enough problem solving in American politics.
Catholic bishop calls health plan attack on religion
posted: 02/04/2012 4:07 a.m. Discuss
The state’s top Roman Catholic official is denouncing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for requiring the church’s schools, hospitals, adoption agencies and other charities to begin offering free contraceptive services as part of their health-care plans.
Adjusting vision
posted: 01/21/2012 3:55 a.m. Discuss
Longtime Little Rock eye doctor Bert Miller, 79, has shifted his focus from eye charts to evangelism. On Sunday, as friends and family look on, he’ll bow his head, make his vows and become an ordained minister at the Little Rock Community Church.
Most pastors to hold Christmas services
posted: 12/17/2011 4:20 a.m. Comments 3
This year, Dec. 25 falls on a Sunday, and most Protestant churches will be opening their doors that day to mark the holiday, a survey shows.
Pryor calls on Congress to help Arkansas widow
posted: 11/29/2011 11:46 a.m. Comments 2
U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor took to the floor of the U.S. Senate today to argue for congressional relief for the family of a dead Arkansas serviceman. Samson T. Luke, a captain in the Arkansas Army National Guard and a father of four, was undergoing military training at Fort Chaffee the weekend he died in early 2010.
