Religion & Spirituality Section :: Page 9

• Carol of the bells

  By YS News StaffDecember 17, 2009

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• Presbies welcome new pastor

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 5, 2009

  Growing up in the farming community of Arcanum, Ohio, almost five decades ago, Doris Arnett Whitaker was surrounded by strong, church-going women who passed on to her their highest aspirations for a young girl: if she worked hard, she could grow up to be a nurse, a teacher, or a minister’s wife.

  Whitaker took that advice seriously, although she’s given it a significant twist. She’s not the minister’s wife. She’s the minister.

• Antioch Buddhist program is 30

  By Diane ChiddisterMay 21, 2009

  

  The Buddhist Studies Program of Antioch Education Abroad, or AEA, offers something unique to young people, organizers believe. The young participants not only study Buddhism but live it, immersed in an exotic world as residents of a monastery among monks and nuns.

• Baptist tea hits 50 with thanks

  By Lauren HeatonApril 23, 2009

  

  Some traditions don’t change, such as the raisin bars, spinach balls and heavenly tea cakes with orange glaze that Isabel Newman makes every year for the event known as the First Baptist Church Calendar Tea. But other traditions do, such as the fact that the Calendar Tea, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this Sunday, April 26, 3–6 p.m., is no longer named after its 12 tables themed for each month of the year.

• Building expenses spark Presbyterian finance woes

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 11, 2008

  The Emporium was lit up on Saturday night with the music and enthusiasm of over 100 congregants and supporters of the Yellow Springs First Presbyterian Church, who were partying at a fund-raising benefit.

• Visiting Buddhist nuns seek help for Nepali girls at risk

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 3, 2008

  

  As a girl growing up in Nepal, Sister Dhamma Vijaya saw few opportunities. Most girls were not educated. She was expected to marry by 15, then leave her parents’ home for the home of her husband’s family, where she would have little power.