Author: By Steve Rabey Religion Correspondent
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Colorado Springs company works with Braver Angels to promote civility through training, debates
Reports say rising incivility harms Americans in many ways, including their personal lives (relationships broken over politics), their work (employees reportedly face 190 million uncivil acts per day), and in government (majorities say division keeps it from functioning as it could). Starting this week, founders of a local business named Reclaiming Civility are teaming up…
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Colorado-based Youth For Christ still reaching out at 80
The 19th century saw the rise of ministries targeting young people, including England’s Young Men’s Christian Association, founded in 1844. In the 1930s, Christian groups in Britain and North America organized energetic, entertaining evangelistic rallies designed to attract and evangelize young people. These youth outreaches gave birth to modern youth ministry and to enduring nonprofits,…
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Third bishop helps Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs celebrate 40 years
When he answered the phone in 2021, Father James Golka was happily serving as a priest in the city where he was baptized and raised, Grand Island, Neb., and could easily visit his parents and many of his 64 cousins. The call from the papal nuncio in Washington, D.C., the Vatican’s representative in America, informed…
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Officers’ Christian Fellowship helps military leaders build faith and lasting relationships
After Scott Fisher graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1992, his 27-year military career took him to 16 duty locations around the world, including stints in Iraq and South Korea and years in D.C. as Pentagon assistant for legislative affairs and as the Air Force’s representative to the Senate Committee on Armed Services. But…
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First Congregational Church celebrates 150 years of shaping Colorado Springs
The ongoing celebration of First Congregational Church’s 150th anniversary pays tribute not only to what happens inside the church’s walls but also to the progressive congregation’s outsized impact on Colorado Springs. First Congregational isn’t the city’s oldest church; that’s an honor held by First United Methodist Church, founded in 1871, the same year as the…
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Sarah’s Home near Colorado Springs offers healing place for teen sex trafficking victims
Every year, tens or even hundreds of thousands of Americans are trafficked and exploited, with many sold for sex. It’s a multibillion-dollar criminal industry, second only to the trade in illegal drugs. For teen girls who are forced to appear in porn films, work in illicit massage parlors or serve as prostitutes in hotels and…
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Colorado Springs company helps nation’s churches reach their communities
Jesus told his followers to share his teaching and make disciples. A Colorado Springs-based for-profit company helps them do it. There are more than 300,000 evangelical churches in the country, and Outreach Inc. says it works with nearly one fifth of them every year. “We are a church media and marketing company that helps churches…
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MOPS changes name to MomCo but focus on mothers remains
In 1973, eight women at Trinity Baptist Church in Wheat Ridge decided they needed a couple of hours of fun to balance the demands of motherhood. They arranged for someone to watch their kids while they talked, laughed, ate, enjoyed a craft demonstration and closed with a Christian devotional. The idea that moms need community,…
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Colorado Springs ministries host hundreds of thousands of guests each year
The Navigators make a bold claim about Glen Eyrie, calling their historic home “the most awe-inspiring location in Colorado Springs.” Every year, about 60,000 people visit the Glen, near Garden of the Gods, for its “soul-stirring views,” photograph its herd of bighorn sheep and flock of wild turkeys, go to its bookstore and coffee shop,…
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Colorado Springs author’s most personal book sheds light on depression
2020 had it all: Disease. Death. Lockdowns. Economic despair. Social isolation. Poisoned politics. Racial strife. Street protests. “An unprecedented convergence of crises has created one of the most difficult periods I can ever remember,” said Denver Seminary President Mark Young last fall. These pressures have strained Americans’ mental health and tripled rates of depression, according…