“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?” Martin Luther King, Jr. posed that question to an audience in Montgomery, Alabama in 1957 — 68 years ago — and today, it still holds important meaning to many volunteers in our own communities. Dr. King, if […]
Thom Nickels: Reforming the reforms in church architecture
While touring a number of Roman Catholic churches in Austria some time ago, I was struck by the haphazard clash of styles: magnificent Romanesque-Gothic high altars, richly appointed with frescoes and images, with an oddly shaped table plunked down in front like something dropped from The Planet of the Apes: […]
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: A log cabin in Penn’s Woods
Standing today at one of America’s most historic intersections — the confluence of Old York Road and Susquehanna Street Road dating back to 1693 — are the subtle reminders of third oldest Presbyterian Church established in Pennsylvania and its deep history. Located at that intersection is the Abington Presbyterian Cemetery, […]
Thom Nickels: Muscular Christianity? A Kensington mission has a different spin on church.
The mixture of brawn and macho with Jesus Saves Bible messages is appealing to youths who would otherwise never attend a conventional church.
By Thom Nickels
Thom Nickels: Church and state — avoiding the political minefield at coffee hour
The priests don’t want to talk about it, but the parishioners sure do.
By Thom Nickels
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: When nothing is sacred
The desecration of our historic, religious architecture is a plague upon the city.
By Michael Thomas Leibrandt
Saving closed churches from the wrecking ball
Brody Hale works to preserve Catholic churches — as churches, not condominiums.
By Thom Nickels