Tag: first congregational church
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Colorado Springs church vandalized for the fourth time in six months
Emily Bond’s first thought when she got to work on Tuesday morning was, “Oh, no! We have to get another banner. Again.” Shortly before 8 p.m. Monday night, as members of the Out Loud Men’s Chorus were rehearsing inside First Congregational Church in downtown Colorado Springs, a neighbor’s video cam captured two cars pulling up,…
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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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Colorado Springs church integrates sex education, spirituality
People learn about sex in all sorts of ways. Conversations with friends, health class in school, parents, the internet, books, movies. But what if there’s another resource for sex education? Since 2001, First Congregational Church has offered Our Whole Lives, a secular national sex education program developed by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United…
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Colorado Springs faith communities pray for immediate, sustained bilateral ceasefire in Middle East
The chaos in the Middle East weighed heavily on the hearts of Christians and people of other faith traditions who gathered in Colorado Springs on Monday to pray for “an immediate and sustained bilateral cease-fire in the Middle East.” “Violence in the world is doing untold harm to an untold amount of people,” Josh Rumple,…