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Posted on Apr 23, 12:15 AM
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WINCHESTER -- The city's only synagogue will have a new leader in July. Beth El Congregation, located on Fairmont Avenue, has hired Rabbi Scott M. Sperling to replace Rabbi Jonathan Brown, who will retire after six years, according to a news release. 
Posted on Mar 15, 12:15 AM
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NEW MARKET -- After learning of the Rock of Ages mission and spending a week in Cleveland, Tenn., helping the cause, Josette and Paul Miller found a cause of their own: Guiding troubled youth along a more spiritual path to enlightenment, happiness and freedom.
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WINCHESTER -- The Beth El Congregation didn't draw attention when vandals sprayed Nazi-related graffiti on its synagogue in the city in December.
Posted on Feb 12, 4:15 AM
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MT. JACKSON -- Morning Star Lutheran Church voted early last month to break away from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and has received praise and $500 as a result, church officials said.
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FRONT ROYAL -- Tony Alan Bates considers himself blessed. Blessed with an inherent musical ability, blessed with strong religious faith and blessed with a beautiful wife and son. But of all of his blessings, what was perhaps the most distinctive one originally came in disguise.
Posted on Nov 27, 4:30 AM
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EDINBURG -- The Lord called William Day through a jar of rhubarb jelly. At the Creekside Campground, owned by the Day family, the sight of jelly is as prominent as that of campers. Strawberry, blueberry, peach -- even a hot pepper jelly is present at times -- available for $5 a pint.
Posted on Nov 13, 4:29 AM
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By Sally Voth -- svoth@nvdaily.com WINCHESTER -- Lutherans concerned about the direction their church is headed -- especially in light of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Churchwide Assembly's decision to allow practicing homosexuals into the clergy -- can join with like-minded individuals at a Lutheran CORE meeting Saturday at Millwood Fire Hall. At the churchwide assembly meeting in August in Minneapolis, the organization decided to allow homosexuals in committed relationships to be active in the church's ministry. The decision came on a 559-451 vote, according to a news release posted on the ELCA's Web site. "Earlier the assembly also approved a resolution committing the church to find ways for congregations that choose to do so to 'recognize, support and hold publicly accountable life-long, monogamous, same gender relationships,' though the resolution did not use the word 'marriage,'" the release says. "The actions here change the church's policy, which previously allowed people who are gay and lesbian into the ordained ministry only if they remained celibate." Ryan Schwarz, who attends a Lutheran church in McLean, is on the steering committee of Lutheran CORE, and is on the agenda Saturday. "We are a collection of congregations, individuals and reform movements, Lutherans who,...
Posted on Sep 26, 2:00 AM
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The most important 10 days in the Jewish year are coming to a close, but the message they convey to the faithful is just taking effect, according to a local rabbi.
Posted on Sep 19, 2:00 AM
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WOODSTOCK -- All of the hubbub at First Baptist Church this year is about it turning 50, but you would not realize it after talking to a few people involved.
Posted on Sep 4, 2:00 AM
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WOODSTOCK -- The church leader behind the giant crosses on Interstate 81 west of Strasburg is asking for the Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors' blessing when he asks the Virginia Department of Transportation for a highway sign directing motorists to his church's park.
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