One Friday in the spring of 1971, 5-year-old train enthusiast Michael Meadows and his grandmother boarded the northbound train to Nashville at Chattanooga's Un…
Anti-abortion activist Candy Clepper grew up in Central City, a small Kentucky town memorialized in the John Prine song, "Paradise."
For a pedestrian strolling through Vienna, Berlin or one of many other European cities, reminders of the Holocaust turn up unexpectedly, often in the form of b…
The University of the South launched a new initiative this week, aimed at promoting frank discussions on racial issues and opening up new political possibiliti…
The executive director of Chattanooga's public transportation system will retire later this year.
A former Chattanooga-area church volunteer and elementary school PTA president is facing child molestation and aggravated sexual battery charges in Georgia.
An evangelical liberal arts school and a Christian athletic nonprofit group, neighbors in Dayton, Tennessee, have for years fought for the ownership of a summe…
More than three decades ago, Congress passed a law calling for museums and other groups to return the human remains of Native Americans in their possession.
United Methodists in North Georgia have a new bishop, the first African American woman to preside over the Atlanta-based conference of about 320,000 lay member…
Citing the spread of "misleading, defamatory and false" information, the North Georgia body for the United Methodists says it will temporarily stop accepting r…
Megachurch Redemption to the Nations will launch a new 800-seat location Sunday in Cleveland, Tennessee.
One afternoon in April 2005, David Carter was supposed to attend a seminar on Catholic canon law. He skipped it.
After learning they could not have a biological child, Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram, of Knox County, sought to adopt a boy in Florida.
Months after filing for bankruptcy, Venue Church has agreed to sell its former big-box store property on Lee Highway -- but pastor Tavner Smith said the embatt…
Stanislav Vadrus was studying violin in Ukraine when war broke out in the country's Donbas region, preventing him from going home to his family.
Elaine Winer, of East Ridge, uses the "Jewish Holiday Kitchen" cookbook as her guide for making latkes, a kind of potato pancake.
After about 15 years without owning one, The Well has purchased its first-ever building property -- marking a new phase for a church planted to bring a neighbo…
After a long search, Brainerd Baptist Church, a storied local congregation that has cycled through multiple senior pastors in the past decade, has selected a n…
The Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga wants Chattanoogans to fight antisemitism, and it's sending the message in part via nine new pink billboards aroun…
Among the only faith-based groups in the state that focuses on climate change, Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light in Knoxville has a single part-time paid wo…
On Tuesday, a group of women were discussing self-esteem at Foundation House Ministries' satellite office in Ooltewah.
Earlier this month, a room on the sprawling campus of Silverdale Baptist Church teemed with hectic energy.
In late October, two Chattanooga-area Catholics, Theresa Critchfield and Kristy Higgins, drove with their children to a protest outside the Cathedral of the Mo…
What exactly is a "stranger," and why do we often blame them for our problems?
Most Hamilton County voters believe abortion should be a decision between a between a woman and her doctor, with no government restrictions, according to a rec…
Adva Kasay did not grow up really celebrating Sigd, the Ethiopian Jewish day of fasting and repentance that began Tuesday night and lasts through Wednesday. Sh…
Earlier this month near Atlanta, the owner of a company that remodels convenience store chains joined up with an owner of a company that makes security perimet…
Local Christian leaders and their colleagues braved the rain Tuesday morning and converged on the Hunter Museum of American Art. They took seats around 30 or s…
In a complaint filed in federal court late last week, a Honduran asylum seeker who said a priest at her Catholic church in Gatlinburg, Tenn., sexually assaulte…
Early this year, Katherine Hesler, an archaeology doctorate student at Lipscomb University in Nashville, came home to Chattanooga to get her wisdom teeth out. …
When University of Tennessee at Chattanooga student Carter Jordan first heard about the flyers, he dismissed it as hearsay.
Disturbed by his perception that Americans have become terrible at talking to people they disagree with, and inspired by a recent book that details a strategy …
About ten years ago, Robert Payne, an inmate at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, was discussing prison conditions with the chaplain, Jeanni…
The investigation of a prominent Chattanooga area televangelist may soon enter a new phase.
When Bill Mason started ministering, in his 20s, he wanted to be "this real powerful preacher," with a great, resonant voice -- an Adrian Rogers-type.
Several Chattanooga-area congregations have formally begun the process of leaving the United Methodist Church.
Saturday morning, Charley Miller, of Cookeville, Tennessee, sat in a chair in a sunny parking lot between the Second Presbyterian Church and the Mountain City …
Friday afternoon, in the gym of the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga, teenagers were hustling for a basketball.
The storm picked up around midnight. Power was out at Lynn Landskroner's house in rural Hardee County, Florida, and as Hurricane Ian intensified, she and her h…
On Sunday morning, Terry Wheeler, bundled in a white hat and a scarf, looked on as her husband, Norton, and assorted members of the Mizpah and B'Nai Zion congr…
Funding for the Police Department will increase under a budget amendment passed Tuesday by the Chattanooga City Council.