Celebrated travel writer and Iowa native Lori Erickson has crossed the globe for years, writing about spiritually significant places. But when preparing to write a book about holy sites right here in the United States, the COVID pandemic hit.
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The decision is a win for religious rights and one in a series of cases in recent years in which the justices have sided with religious plaintiffs. Last year, for example, the court ruled along ideological lines for a football coach who prayed on the field at his public high school after games.
Local leaders from the Black, religious, and historical communities helped create a permanent archive of 28 unmarked graves of black Iowans in Oak Hill Cemetery in southeast Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
Robertson pioneered a now-common strategy of courting Iowa’s network of evangelical Christian churches, and finished in second place in the Iowa caucuses, ahead of Vice President George H.W. Bush.
During a special session hosted by conference leaders. 83 churches in Iowa agreed to leave to join more traditionalist denominations or have total independence.
Archbishop Michael Jackels, who has led the Dubuque Archdiocese of the Catholic Church since 2013, will retire for health reasons.
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A Cedar Rapids-based church is hosting a free week-long camp in August that will help children cope with traumas related to the 2020 derecho and other crises.
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church is providing free lunch at the Pheasant Ridge Neighborhood Center until August with food donations from HACAP Food Pantry.
The Iowa City Church on American Legion Road on the east side of Iowa City was “fully engulfed in flames and smoke” early Saturday morning. The fire remains under investigation.
The school tried to work out a solution so Kennedy could pray privately before or after the game. When he continued to kneel and pray on the field, the school put him on paid leave.
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