Texas City’s Hopewell Baptist Church is bringing in talented speakers for its Youth Revival which will run at 7 p.m. nightly July 31, Aug. 1 and Aug. 2 at 316 S. Pine Road.

Many faith-based films share the fate of art house movies. They are often enthusiastically embraced by their target audiences, but generally not classed as box office hits. This trend has led large Hollywood studios like Fox and Disney to create specialty labels just for these niche-market p…

Left to myself, I will sit around and vegetate. I know that other people don’t do this, but I do. When I look across the room at my dog who follows me from room to room and is happy to be wherever I am, I know that he needs to walk. So, I get up, put on my shoes, find his leash and off we go…

A gala reception for HERStory quilts will begin at 7 p.m. July 12 at the Webster Presbyterian Church, 201 W. Nasa Parkway. Later, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 13-14, there will be workshops where average and experienced quilters can learn how to create intricate designs such as those featured …

If we could turn back the calendar to that first Fourth of July, how would church be different? Although the Bible speaks of the “faith once delivered,” churches and cultures do change. We asked American history experts to weigh in.

Clear Lake’s Congregation Shaar Hashalom will hold its annual 150 family garage sales from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on July 15 at 16020 El Camino Real, Houston.

I always liked Stephen Hawking. I admired his brilliance and the courage he demonstrated in his fight with Lou Gehrig’s Disease. In March, Hawking died at 76. A couple weeks ago, June 15, his ashes were buried in Westminster Abbey between the graves of Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton.

The America I grew up in was seen as the shining light on a hill. We took pride in the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. Instead of decimating our enemies after World War II, we helped them rebuild. Germany and Japan embraced freedom and prosperity and became two of our strongest allies.

Texas City’s First Baptist Church M25 Outreach Services will offer help to the community at 11 a.m. Saturday at 2120 36th St. North.

A casual search of the Bible reveals the word prison shows up almost 80 times. Many of these citations are not personally applicable, such as the suggestion in the Book of Acts 22:4, that Saul put more believers in prison than anyone else before he became St. Paul. Still, some of the remaini…

There was a day when we felt we could trust those who spoke to us, the Presidents who led us and the journalists who interpreted the news. We believed Washington “could not tell a lie.” Lincoln was known for his honesty. We always knew we could trust Walter Cronkite, whether he was reporting…

Not long after Hurricane Harvey’s waters receded, the Rev. Leanna Brewer, a pastor from Burleson, drove around our island looking to deliver a load of diapers and food to someone in need. What she found was a large man standing just outside a building. In front of the man was a table. In fro…

Anchor Point’s Pathway to Hope Summer Family Camp will run June 25-29 at University Baptist Church at 16106 Middlebrook Drive in Houston this summer. This program has been developed for children from hard places such as foster care, adopted, trauma, abuse or neglect.

This has been a long time coming. Long ago, in 1891, Texas saw the inauguration of the first native son as its governor. Elsewhere, a fellow invented the game of basketball. But right here, a bishop blessed what we believe to be the first African-American Catholic Church in all of Texas.

An Atlanta businessman boarded MARTA to make his daily commute to work. He stood in the crowded car scanning the newspaper accounts of crime when he felt a stranger bump him. He instinctively felt for the wallet in his back pocket and found it missing. He folded the paper and kept his eye on…

The Interfaith Caring Ministries Resale Shop is on the move and looking for your help. After 18 years at the corner of Bay Area Boulevard and state Highway 3, the store will relocate to 803 E. Nasa Pkwy Suite 118. Sales from this venue help support Interfaith’s charity work including its foo…

Young families embody the hope and dreams of our future. Few scenes move me as much as a young couple strolling along the seawall pushing a stroller; fathers splashing in the surf with their children while young mothers lounge on the beach; children laughing in the park flying kites with the…

Few institutions on the island have had the ongoing impact that St. Vincent’s House has had. This Episcopal outreach and service ministry is now welcoming a new director, Lisa Barrera-Odom.

Picture yourself as the pastor of a small church in mid-county. Your congregation has aged a bit as has the surrounding community, so finances are tight. Your board decided to eliminate the flood insurance policy for your paid-up campus as part of a cost-saving campaign.

It might be that those of any established faith can in some way pity the naturalist. Since for those who hold that time, chance and matter are all that exist, there can be nothing supernatural. That is, in a naturalistic, closed system there can be no miracles, no eternal destinies, no objec…

Clear Lake’s Congregation Shaar Hashalom will present its Epicurean Bites of the Bay event from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Johnnie Arolfo City Civic Center, 400 W. Walker in League City.

It didn’t take long to record the first murder in human history. The Bible’s first death was a homicide. Cain, enraged with resentment, jealousy and anger attacked his brother and killed him. Since that moment, much of human history has been written in blood.

The Bible has a lot to say about money and especially about debt.

Restaurants were packed, flower shops put on extra staff, greeting card racks were picked over as we honored our mothers. Next month, we will fire up the backyard grills and head to the lakes to honor our fathers. We know intuitively that this is right. Regardless of our nationality or ethni…

Galveston’s Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church is turning 129 with a celebration set for 11 a.m. Sunday at 2920 Ave. M 1/2. There will be a special emphasis that day on honoring cancer survivors with the event co-chaired by church members Carolyn Softly and Rose Collins, who have both faced…

The Galveston Bay Area office of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston told Our Faith this week that the group is launching new programs to benefit female veterans and disaster victims.

We live in a time-crunched world. Parents whip up a quick breakfast for bleary-eyed children before bundling them into cars to be dropped off at daycare and school. Some grab a drive-through burrito before negotiating traffic on the freeways while juggling cellphones. Weary from long hours a…

Church Women United will hold its May Friendship Day and Human Rights Celebration afternoon tea at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Galveston’s First Presbyterian Church, 1903 Church St.

The Christian church did not invent the hospital. The Romans had created a series of military clinics hundreds of years before Pentecost, but the church became the western world’s major medical provider as Rome became Christianized. Church monasteries often incorporated healing spaces in the…

The world waited most of a week to learn the name of England’s new prince, born to William and Kate on April 23. Finally, on April 27, we were introduced to His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Cambridge. For much of the next century we will likely follow Prince Louis alongside his brother and…

The group NASA Aglow will meet from 9:30 a.m. to noon Thursday at Praise Chapel, 18516 state Highway 3, in Webster, with Debbie Simmons, CEO and founder of Anchor Point, as the guest speaker.

It may not be emphasized in seminaries or preached from ivory towers, but wise children of all ages understand that before one can really picture a Heavenly Father, a God who knows you right well, much less envision angels or miracles, it really, really helps to have a few good fairy tales u…

Christine Rosen, writing in The New Atlantis, stated, “Americans love images. We love the democratizing power of technologies — such as digital cameras, video cameras, Photoshop, and PowerPoint — that give us the capability to make and manipulate images. What we are less eager to consider ar…

The Children’s Oasis Foundation will sponsor its second annual Autism Walk and Celebration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at League City’s Walter Hall Park, 807 state Highway 3.

The dozens of new, small churches meeting in schools, motels and strip centers might well envy Friendswood’s Reach Church at 104 Whispering Pines Ave. There, the Rev. Tracy Barnett preaches to a debt-free flock that owns 5.5 acres with a 5,500 square foot building and extensive parking, maki…

I grew up in the Tom Landry era of the Dallas Cowboys. When he was hired for the expansion team in 1960 they had little prospect for success. After going winless in their first season, Landry told the team his priorities were God, family and football, in that order. Bob Lilly, who had just j…

You may have noticed that Rev. Robin Reeves of Texas City’s St. George’s Episcopal Church was one of our Everyday Heroes in the recent Profiles magazine from The Daily News. Reeves said that appearance inspired her to provide her congregation with 350 special gift bracelets. A simple kindnes…

The organization Kids Hope will be the focus of the next Friendswood Community Prayer Breakfast beginning at 7:10 a.m. April 21 at First Baptist Church, 111 E. Heritage, in Friendswood.

One might hope and pray for a para-church ministry to help out after an event like Hurricane Harvey. Nonprofit volunteers were often viewed as faster than government help. They certainly required less paperwork. Still, if you did get to sign on with such a ministry, you’d never expect the he…

It’s commendable when any faith-based aid organization comes to help hurricane victims and even more remarkable when some of these organizations choose to remain for years of relief and restoration efforts here.