Faith Archive

Santa Rosa and Escambia County churches are partnering together to help families in need. Care Portal is a nationwide program that seeks to help children and families through meeting their needs.

About 20 miles north of town there is an idyllic home where race, age, gender, and ability know no boundaries. My Father’s Arrows is a distinctly Christian children’s home for hurting children who have been abandoned by everyone else. It takes only 30 seconds on the inside to feel the love, warmth, and acceptance that the children there radiate.

“Anybody’s who’s come in contact with him knows how real his faith in Jesus was. I believe even though COVID may have taken his last breath, Jesus was right there to catch him. I know that he’s seeing things now that I long to see. My heart’s broke.”

Every Sunday morning at 10 a.m., Living Truth Church meets at the East Milton ballpark, where they hold their service in the community gymnasium.

“We’re really nontraditional, no suit no tie,” Paster Jared Owens said. “I’ve been known to wear sneakers a time or two.”

They launched their church in March 2020, right at the beginning of COVID-19. Living Truth Church East Milton held online services for about two months and were able to finally meet in person in June.

“How uncomfortable are you willing to become to welcome someone else into your community?” That question was put to me years ago by a wise and wizened preacher, forcing me to think about the boundari…

As I was coming up in the hard-baked fundamentalism of Appalachia, my religious instructors began to feverishly warn me of the dangers I would face in the world. It consisted of the obligatory advise…

Glenda B. Frazier has been writing her entire life. As a young girl, one of nine children, she would write in…

MILTON — What does a reset look like for you? Do you feel like you lack significance or fulfillment? Is there a part of you that asks, "Is this all there is in life?" Just as you sometimes have to…

The Baptist Health Care Foundation received a $100,000 grant from the Cigna Foundation through its World of…

NAVARRE — This season a few thoughtful and caring people connected to make Christmas dinner happen for many in the Navarre community. The little church on the corner of Panhandle Trail and Highway…