Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Bethesda Temple Church is about to put $2 million up in smoke. On ...

“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” – 2 Corinthians 5:8* The aforementioned verse serves to comfort Bethesda Temple Church of the ...

A suspected arson fire that nearly destroyed a South Los Angeles church couldn’t destroy parishioners' spirits as they clapped and sang at the weekly service Sunday, two days after a blaze ripped ...

UPDATE 12:32 p.m.: Ash was still floating through the air near Bethesda Temple Apostolic Church late Friday morning as firemen escorted church leaders through the rubble, helping them salvage some of ...

Perhaps it was divine inspiration that resulted in Temple Emanu-El and The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea holding their Blessing of the Animals ceremonies on the same sunny Sunday. “That was ...