“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?” Martin Luther King, Jr. posed that question […]
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 […]
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 […]
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