Within a few weeks, a group of men from One Accord Community Church will stand before their families, their fellow church members and their God and recite promises to be the spiritual leader of their home.

Twenty-five years ago, no one wanted property in what was commonly called North Chattanooga.

Nothing gets kicked around today like Christianity. And, in truth, there's probably a lot of kicking around deserved.

What price show business? "Anton in Show Business," a comedy that opens Tuesday in the Dorothy Hackett Ward Theatre at the UTC Fine Arts Center, focuses on three women seeking their breakout role in San Antonio, Texas, in the Anton Chekhov play "Three Sisters."

Mystery lovers will be in paradise when they immerse themselves in "The Butler Did It, Again!," which opens today at the Signal Mountain Playhouse at the Mountain Arts Community Center.

Best-selling author Dr. Henry Lodge said his advice on aging isn't any better than anything anyone might have said for the past 2,000 years.

Trish Newsom said it on national television, so she really wanted to find a way to make it come true.

Earlier this week, George Beverly Shea, the longtime soloist for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, turned 103 years old.

Though written and set in the Elizabethan era, "The Merchant of Venice" offers characters who may look very familiar, said the director of a new production of the William Shakespeare tragic comedy opening Sunday at the Jewish Cultural Center.

With the mild winter Chattanooga has experienced up to now, boaters may be champing at the bit to get out on Chickamauga Lake.

The oversize critters that prowl a trail off the Tennessee Riverwalk are in the process of giving their manufacturer a lead on the future of outdoor play spaces across the country.

The children's message at First Baptist Church in Dayton, Tenn., hooked him. Not only did he digest the simple theological point, but the method in which it was presented intrigued him enough to make it a career.

Chris Kugler says it isn't his intention to paint himself as a spiritual Indiana Jones, but the pursuit for truth in his young life has led him to write about how to more fully live a Christian life.

Ten strangers walk into a library and begin reading Oscar Wilde.

This is not your grandfather's legend of King Arthur. But Grandfather was a bit of a fuddy-duddy, anyway.

A Dr. Who action figure sits jauntily on the desk of his basement office. Beatles action figures perch on a shelf to his right in their original packaging. Monsters in bubble packs loom above him. A Dr. Who clocks ticks behind him.

A lowly $20 bill received by one man at a Christmas Eve service in downtown Chattanooga recently provided the wherewithal for another man in North Georgia to get back on his feet.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is losing its neighbors at the St. Barnabas Apartments it helped found nearly 50 years ago, but it is in the process of purchasing a parking lot from the senior living organization.

A man who pastored Chattanooga churches for 16 years has recently found himself in the same situation as Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum -- campaigning for high office.

The St. Andrews Center, an urban multicultural center once known as Highland Park Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was approved earlier this week for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

What to do with a proud, stuffy, prickly Southern septuagenarian who can no longer drive?

What with all the aircraft, ships, scenes and figures, East Brainerd Church of Christ may more resemble a theater of war than a church on Saturday.

After nearly two decades as an actress in New York City, Kate Forbes thought at one point she'd "cut off her arm" after moving to Chattanooga more than a year ago with her husband and two children.

If a builder's warranty, shiny appliances, custom upgrades and low maintenance are high on your list, a new house is the way to go.

Lisa Underwood Magro said she feels led to write for people, including some teenagers from Maine her pastor recently told her about.

Don't expect all the details to be filled in at the Cleveland Storytelling Guild's Warm Stories & Hot Cider event tonight.

Stephon Ferguson was 39 days old when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was buried in 1968, but when people hear him today they think they're hearing the late civil rights leader.

There won't be bowling, but participants can make a bowl, visit the bowltique and even come dressed in a bowler hat at the Chattanooga Area Food Bank's fifth annual HullaBowloo on Saturday night.

There won’t be bowling, but participants can make a bowl, visit the bowltique and even come dressed in a bowler hat at the Chattanooga Area Food Bank’s fifth annual HullaBowloo on Saturday night.

The Chattanooga Southeast Tennessee Film Commission is trying to secure its share of the motion-picture pie for the Scenic City today, but nearly a century ago a national studio produced a number of silent films around the area from an office on Signal Mountain.

In just under seven months, a fire did what Red Bank United Methodist Church might never have accomplished on its own, according to the Rev. Jeff Lambert, pastor.

When Father Augustine Idra departs Notre Dame High School for the final time on Jan. 16, there may be many people wishing him well with their words but grasping the hem of his coat to keep him there.

If you've talked about it in the breakroom, at the ballfield or at church, it's likely to be mentioned by The Water Coolers in their wry look at the modern world.

It's time to get the weight off. Time to strengthen the legs. Time to tone up.

If downtown Chattanooga seems to have been populated by more young adults than usual the past five days, it actually has been.

If you've worked as a barbecue chef, a Frito-Lay salesman and a spokesman for Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits, you've got to have a few good stories.

A resolution to exercise more in 2012 doesn't have to start in a confined space amid scores of sweaty bodies.

Health, money, tradition. What's not to like?

It paid to attend the Chattanooga Christmas Eve Celebration hosted Saturday night by Brainerd Baptist Church. Literally, it did. During its third annual service at the Chattanooga Convention Center, the church distributed $26,000 to attendees in hopes they might assist someone else.

Dr. Robby Gallaty, senior pastor of Brainerd Baptist Church, said he isn't trying to proselytize but to unite.

Rabbi Shaul Perlstein said the idea of Jewish people eating dinner at a Chinese restaurant on Christmas Day because no other places are open is not really a custom. But eating latkes during Hanukkah is.

The audience didn’t spook him, Anthony Baker said, but the possibility of blowing his lines did.

Christy Smalley said she didn't want a dripping-with-Christmas look for her contemporary home on Ooltewah's Wolftever Slough.

A reimagining of Langston Hughes' 50-year-old play "Black Nativity" will be offered by Destiny Theatre Company on Wednesday and Thursday at the Tivoli Theatre.

Like the parade of people crowding into Bethlehem to register for the census more than 2,000 years ago, hundreds of people will stream into Sequoyah Caverns next week for the attraction's ninth annual Christmas in the Caverns.

Once upon a time, singing was his hobby, John Brandon said. Now, it’s his career, says the Ooltewah resident who’s becoming a nationally known baritone.

Hickory Valley Christian Church explores modern adaptation of the Nativity story.

The church in East Tennessee was well established by the time the Rev. John Thompson Price came along in the last quarter of the 19th century, but the Civil War had literally torn individual congregations apart.

Nothing says Christmas like a family of bullies, but that's what the Chattanooga Theatre Centre is serving up for the next three weeks.

The location of Couch’s Bar-B-Que restaurant always intrigued me, stuck by itself as it is on Old Lee Highway between the Bonny Oaks Drive/Collegedale exit off Interstate 75 and burgeoning Ooltewah.