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This year’s Family Life Bible Quizzers are still riding high on excitement from their second-place win at the annual National Bible Quiz Tournament, h...

Christopher D. Stanley

Lent has just started. This is a traditional time of going deeper in your life of faith. What are your plans for deepening your faith during Lent? Man...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Little Valley First United Methodist Church, located at 109 Court St., will soon be known as Bridge of Hope. The congregation invi...

In response to Steven Roberts’ column, “Would Jesus Get Jabbed?” in the July 26 edition of the Times Herald, Roberts transforms the Jesus of the Bible...

OLEAN — Those who think about Christmas in July are often the organized people that last-minute shoppers admire but can’t seem to model, as much as th...

Having been raised in the church, I have grown up hearing that God has His angels watching over each and every one of us. Somehow, somewhere and ‘some...

I grew up in Hornell, went to JCC in Olean and to Elim College in the Mount Morris area to be a pastor. My father was a pastor his whole life. I never...

How many times have we been asked, “How are you today?” How many times have we answered, “I’m fine.” It doesn’t matter if we are fine or not, unless t...

SALAMANCA — During this time of social distancing, it must be frustrating for a pastor to shut the church doors just when parishioners need spiritual ...

I was reading on a website for Christian writers and saw that one columnist had written that people should “allow for the interruptions.” She meant it...

In two recent editorials I examined some of the reasons why so many (predominantly white) Evangelical Christians support Donald Trump and why other Ev...

In a previous column I explored why 80% of white Evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, and why most of thos...

ALLEGANY — As Ward Near and his wife, Nancy, looked out the window of their modern hotel room in Tiberius, they could see an ancient abandoned mosque ...

OLEAN — After last year’s presentation on the respectable women of the Bible, organizer Della Moore was asked to set up an event that talked about the...

OLEAN — It’s been 40 years since Tom Taylor of Cuba was asked to use his woodworking skills to make some pieces for the former St. Francis Hospital’s ...

OLEAN — Pastor Jason Hladik has been serving Olean First Baptist Church since late June, but will be officially installed as senior pastor on Sunday. ...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — A letter condemning same-sex marriage as blasphemous and a perversion was included recently in the church bulletin at St. Eulalia C...