Whether Israel's 60th anniversary on Wednesday is cause for celebration depends on whom you talk to. Among practitioners of the Abrahamic faiths - Islam, Judaism and Christianity - passions run deep about the modern Jewish state established in 1948. Christian...
A spiritual crisis took a Colorado Springs man to Spain last year to walk the El Camino de Santiago. But the issues that have dogged him for eight years remain unresolved, so 71-year-old Dick Seibel will give it another go. On May 19, he'll begin the...
The Rev. Rebekah Simon-Peter, a leading speaker on Christian environmentalism, is bringing her message to two area churches this month. Simon-Peter is founder of Bridge-Works, an environmentally conscious religious nonprofit organization based in Wyoming....
Colorado Springs is far from being the epicenter of Tibetan Buddhism in the U.S. Only a couple hundred people in the area practice the faith, and there are no red-robed monks walking the streets reciting Tibetan mantras. ...
CHICAGO - Christians believe in just one God, a God who is merciful, compassionate and who calls people to a life of goodness. So do Muslims. Christians refer to Jesus as "Messiah." So do Muslims - although the word has a different meaning. Muslims follow...
Her favorite foods are pasta, chocolate cake and pudding pie, but today and for the next seven days, Jennifer Van Bueren won't have any of it....
Alan R. Crippen II was ordained an Anglican priest Sunday at Grace Church & St. Stephen's, 601 N. Tejon St. Crippen's ordination is within the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, or CANA, a missionary of the Anglican Church of Nigeria. "I am...
God, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change Courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference. It's called the "Serenity Prayer," and anyone who has ever set foot in a 12-step program such as Alcoholics Anonymous...
Here we go again. The image of Colorado Springs as a hotbed of religious controversy is getting new legs with help from a critically acclaimed documentary that premieres Friday in New York. Nearly one-third of "Constantine's Sword" is devoted to a scandal...
The hundreds of women and children from a Texas polygamist compound shown streaming onto school buses last weekend are the latest public face of polygamy. But they're hardly the first. The secretive communities of people with multiple marriages, usually...