Local church briefs

November 8, 2025

Bible Study LOCK HAVEN — God’s Eternal Life Church, 30 Woodward Ave., Lock Haven, is holding weekly Bible studies each Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. The topic will be Thru the Bible Word for Word. Please feel free to join. Church services are held on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. All are welcome. Pastor Dean Williams can be reached at 570-748-3700. Honoring Veterans MILL HALL — Bald Eagle United Presbyterian Church plans to honor its veterans of the congregation on Sunday, Nov. 9, at 10:30 a.m. Pastor Susan Champion plans to acknowledge seven veterans affiliated with the congregation ...

At the 6-months mark, Pope Leo finds his footing and starts charting his own path and style

November 8, 2025

VATICAN CITY (AP) — “You get used to it.” That was Pope Leo XIV ‘s matter-of-fact response when King Charles III asked about the swarms of televisions cameras documenting his historic visit to the Vatican last month. Charles is no stranger to paparazzi, so Leo wasn’t telling the ...

Local church briefs

November 1, 2025

Bible Study LOCK HAVEN — God’s Eternal Life Church, 30 Woodward Ave., Lock Haven, is holding weekly Bible studies each Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. The topic will be Thru the Bible Word for Word. Please feel free to join. Church services are held on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. All are welcome. Pastor Dean Williams can be reached at 570-748-3700. Blood Drives Local churches will be hosting blood drives over the next several weeks. Blood donors of all types are invited to participate. To find a blood drive being held near you visit the American Red Cross website. Blood drives will be ...

Young adults turn to Quakers’ silent worship to offset — and cope with — a noisy world

November 1, 2025

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — At the Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia’s Old City, more and more young people are seeking respite from a clamorous technological age in the silent worship of a centuries-old faith. Like other Quaker houses of worship, it follows values of simplicity and ...

Quakers at a glance: A look at the faith’s beliefs and the tradition of activism and silent worship

November 1, 2025

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Do Quakers quake? Do Quakers eat Quaker Oats? Are Quakers still around today? These are some of the questions that visitors often ask at the Arch Street Meeting House in Old City Philadelphia. Many visitors don’t know about the Quakers’ faith. But in recent years, ...

Finding Faith: O beautiful for spacious skies

October 25, 2025

“Does a person’s right to believe anything mean that anything they believe is right? Granting someone the right to believe something is a matter of conscience; but going along with everything they believe is a matter of pure nonsense.” — G.K. Chesterton Christians believe that there is an intelligent designer, and everything carries within its form and texture the signature of that Creator. No part of this material world is unconnected with God. Biblical religion cannot be lived apart from matter — the seen, felt, tasted, smelled and listened to. As Eugene H. Peterson says, ...