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MYRTLE BEACH – The Older Adult Retreat held each year is “one of the best kept secrets in the conference,” said Bayard Lindell of Greenwood’s Main Street UMC. Three hundred Uni...

Dr. Carl Evans said the recent round of atheism authors are taking the same approach as fundamentalists: It’s “either ... or.” The authors of four books positing atheism take the pos...

25.8% of S.C. households with children have food hardships – FRAC, Food Hardship study A United Methodist has suggested that feeding the poor is like feeding stray animals, they’ll hang ar...

Hawley Lynn was a short man with a giant’s courage to bear the Word of God. It fell his lot to be pastor of Grace Methodist Church in Pickens when Willie Earle was taken from his jail cell and l...

In the 1980s, I went back to school at USC. Sitting with a few older students for coffee after an English class, someone cracked a gay slur. Fortunately before people had time to really laugh, one wom...

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti at 4:53 p.m. EST Jan. 12, left the Caribbean nation in shambles and rescuers and disaster teams scrambling to save lives. The death toll is expected to be ...

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti at approximately 4:53 p.m. EST Jan. 12, left the Caribbean nation in shambles and rescuers scrambling to save lives. The death toll could reach hundreds of...

‘Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.’ This is the favorite reminder for a young woman who was arrested five times, beginni...

"Jesus was caring about people who were sick and in prison," he said, when asked why we should care. After the 1966 death of its founder, the Rev. Eli Alston Wilkes Jr., the Alston Wilkes So...

Emerging after the age of “No Child Left Behind,” when parents and teacher were told they have to accelerate test scores, is an old idea with new implications and strategies: play. In June...