Jeffrey Dale Dawson
When Dale Dawson first visited Rwanda in late 2004, he encountered families living in tiny mud huts with no electricity, running water or sanitation, and child…
Stories by Heather Hahn
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Dialogue focuses on Pharisees, Passover
As Rabbi Eugene Levy sees it, Christians and Jews owe a debt to the Pharisees.
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Living words
The first 10 years of his life, John Karolson endured the raining bombs of World War II and then rickety military barracks in postwar Germany.
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Driven flock
More than 20 people surrounded Becky Bolder's red, souped-up Buick Regal, clasped the sides of the car and bowed their heads.
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From sighs to songs
It's Sunday night, and more than 100 men in prison yellow are swinging to some Christian jailhouse rock.
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LR church honors its fallen soldier
When Bingham Road Baptist Church's family life center needed renovations, Brad Marshall was among the first to volunteer his help. He joined the building commi…
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African dinner to help Zimbabwe hospice
Three United Methodist churches hope to drum up support tonight for the people of two of Africa's most troubled countries - Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republi…
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Mardi Gras events add to Lenten traditions
What began more than a half century ago as a fun snack for a men's ministry is now a Mardi Gras tradition that draws hundreds of people to St. Mary's Episcopal…
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Filled with compassion
As an orphan in Ghana, Thomas Awiapo watched two of his brothers slowly die of starvation. Only the food he got from Operation Rice Bowl, he said, kept him fro…
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Biographers debate Lincoln's religious views
Abraham Lincoln "will always be remembered as eminently a Christian president," one of his first biographers declared in 1866.
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Pair bring bands to Eden's Edge
When a big-name Christian rock band wants to make a stop in central Arkansas or a local praise group wants to reach a wider audience, Derrick and Karen Horne k…
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Winds of change
A tornado tore through the two most important buildings in pastor Fairel Pierce's life May 2, wiping away his uninsured dream home and tearing apart his church…
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Members of church gain van, building
In a ruling that likely will influence church-property disputes across the state, the Arkansas Supreme Court sided Friday with a tiny Pulaski County congregati…
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Meeting bishop changed businessman's life
Dale Dawson never dreamed he'd be an African banking mogul and a presidential adviser. Then the Little Rock man met the Right Rev. John Rucyahana, an Anglican …
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Betting on faith
Rick Mann is a chaplain with horse sense. Every day, he ministers to people who make their living and often their home on the backstretch of Oaklawn Park racet…
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Justices hear church feud over who owns what
A tiny Little Rock congregation and a leading Protestant denomination wrangled over a white, concrete-block church building and a 10-year-old van during a hear…
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Worshippers see Obama as fruition of King's dream
Black and white worshippers at Winfield United Methodist Church in Little Rock opened their service Sunday afternoon with a litany that would make the Presiden…
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Churches plan to celebrate inauguration
For the Rev. Hezekiah Stewart, watching Barack Obama be inaugurated Tuesday as the 44th president of the United States will be a sacred as well as historic mom…
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Handwritten holy writ
Lubavitch of Arkansas has commissioned a trained scribe to carefully transcribe each of the Torah's 304,805 letters.
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Arkansas churches aid troubled Congo
More than 40 years ago, Arkansas Methodists sent seed packets to the Congo to help hungry people there grow crops. Now they're building wells. Episcopalians ar…
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Scott Louis Marczuk
While other boys his age played cowboys and Indians, the young Scott Marczuk always preferred a quieter form of make-believe - playing church.
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Wise men traditions stray from the Gospels
For many churches, it's a December tradition.
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Music Reviews
Contemporary Christian artists have released a stack of Christmas CDs this year. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's religion writers reviewed a few that are on th…
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Community effort saves food boxes
Little Rock Church of God volunteers transformed their church gym Friday morning into a brisk assembly line to pack boxes of food for at least 400 needy famili…
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Women in Ministry
Thumbing through this year's Arkansas Baptist State Convention directory, the Rev. Carolyn Staley noticed a discrepancy between how male and female ministers w…
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Group vows to mend its storm-ravaged Haiti schools
The El Dorado-based Haiti Education Foundation has shifted its focus from school construction to disaster recovery since summer's deadly weather.
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Star City shines with singing Christmas tree
STAR CITY - Decking the halls at First Baptist Church takes 16,000 watts of electricity, 4,000 feet of wiring, 2,200 colored light bulbs, 1,200 pounds of steel…
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Dwindling Disciples plant a new church
In a place usually associated with death, a new church is coming to life.
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An Exodus in our time
In years past, Arkansas Catholics have heard their bishops deliver recorded Christmas greetings or pleas for charitable contributions.
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Pardonable SIN
When Laura Waters Hinson visited Rwanda in 2006, she was stunned to see the survivors of genocide living side by side in peace with people who had murdered the…
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New college program welcomes Rwandans
Gilbert Ndayambaje was about 5 when genocide erupted in Rwanda in 1994. He lost uncles, aunts and cousins, and the rest of his family, a mixture of Hutus and T…
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Pastor conducts symphony of sermons with a Web site
Growing up, the Rev. Derick Easter loved to listen each Saturday to a variety of preachers share the Gospel on Little Rock community radio station KITA-AM, 144…
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State Obama backers roar
Over beer and platters of fried chicken at Sticky Fingerz, Little Rock-area Democrats cheered as CNN news anchors called one state after another for Sen. Barac…
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4 activists arrested at college
CONWAY - Four gay-rights activists were arrested Monday afternoon immediately after they set foot on the Central Baptist College campus.
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Gay-rights activists face arrest at Arkansas schools
Gay-rights activists will be arrested next week if they set foot on one Arkansas college campus and could face arrest if they step outside of their designated …
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Missionary surgeon went from Arkadelphia to India
From the time she was 13 years old, Dr. Rebekah Naylor says she has had a calling to heal bodies and save souls as a medical missionary. But she was at first h…
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Rwandan archbishop sees crisis of faith, leadership in the West
The Most Rev. Emmanuel Mbona Kolini has ministered under two brutal dictatorships and in the shadow of the Rwandan genocide.
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Rwandan archbishop to visit Little Rock
The archbishop who leads more than a million Anglicans in Rwanda and North America will visit with three Christian groups in Little Rock next week.
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Ministering to chaplains
The Rev. Beth Darling has comforted dozens of traumatized parents in her years as a pediatric hospital chaplain.
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O hear O hear Immanuel
Whenever tunes came on the car radio, the 4-yearold Lyndon Finney used to stroke his fingers across the dashboard just like he was playing a piano.
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Meeting of Catholic order begins Friday
A Catholic chivalric order that dates to the First Crusade nearly 1,000 years ago will hold a regional gathering in Little Rock next week.
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Taking A GAMBLE
Since summer, anti-gambling activist Larry Page has been visiting evangelical churches across the state to share his simple message: Vote no on a state lottery.
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Gift to help students find true callings
With a $1 million gift from the Fort Smith-based Miller Foundation, Hendrix College in Conway plans to help students find their true callings in life.
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New worship leader brings color to singing - and pews
When Chuck Monan first took the pulpit of Pleasant Valley Church of Christ, he preached to a booming west Little Rock congregation that was almost entirely whi…
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Boothbuilding 101
Temple B'nai Israel in Little Rock is getting help with its celebration of the Jewish festival Sukkot from a major home improvement store. The main symbol of t…
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Return of the Prodigal
After years of dealing and using drugs, Reginald Smith found himself behind bars and brought to his knees in prayer.
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Gospel inspired entries by Disney animator
As a Disney animator, Mark Henn has drawn some of the movie studio's most famous leading ladies including The Little Mermaid's Ariel, Beauty and the Beast's Be…
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New Orleans bishop to speak on adversity at faith gathering
His New Orleans church had managed to survive the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina, and then, in July, a three-alarm blaze left it a smoky husk.
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UCA student finds Christ, loses his country
When a foreign exchange student converted to Christianity in Arkansas a year ago, his Muslim father disowned him and banned him from his home in Uzbekistan.
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Low-cost housing seen as LR need
The founder of Habitat for Humanity International said he hopes to build more low-cost housing in Little Rock, but he will need local support.
