Faith – The Journal

Enduring hope

Pair strive to turn around lives of female inmates through ministry

DATE: Mar 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

The Word Moved Into the Neighborhood Can you hear me now?

Ever since my boys began going to school on the Front Range, I text or talk to them every morning on the phone. Recently, the conversation between my youngest and I hit a snag, and it remin...

DATE: Mar 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Ash Wednesday reminds us of mortality

Standing on a busy street corner offering an expression of your faith is an interesting proposition. It’s not one in which I ever thought I’d engage. I suppose that’s because mos...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Inmate chaplain provides light, liberation behind bars

Shelby Smith never saw himself as a minister, but now his favorite chair in the world is by the window in the jail where he meets with up to 20 inmates a week at the Montezuma County Jail. ...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Catholic Daughters Day heralds the installation of court’s new members

Recently the mayor of Cortez, Dan Porter, recognized the only existing Junior Catholic Daughters Court in Colorado for their ongoing community outreach and service to the Church. At an insta...

DATE: Mar 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Mountain View to hold revival

Mountain View Baptist Church will hold Revival Services Sunday, March 9 through Wednesday, March 12. The guest evangelist will be Dr. Charles Patrick Jr. Patrick is director of op...

DATE: Feb 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Pope: Internet is a ‘gift from God’

VATICAN CITY – The Internet is a “gift from God” that facilitates communication, Pope Francis said in a statement released Thursday, but he warns that the obsessive desire to stay connected ...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Communists roast in fire in Montenegro fresco

PODGORICA, Montenegro – Look up at the wall and you can see Yugoslavia’s late autocratic leader Josip Broz Tito drowning in red fiery waves of hell – along with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel...

DATE: Feb 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Rejoice, and the world might just join in with you

I discovered an interesting mystery working In-Patient Psychiatry for almost thirty years: I discovered that our staff rarely admitted happy patients for treatment. Regardless of...

DATE: Jan 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Living life as a pilgrimage

“To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim.” This ...

DATE: Jan 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Tune in to God by tuning out the world

What and to whom are you listening to these days? I know people who listen to sports radio whenever they are in the car; who have political pundits playing in the background whil...

DATE: Jan 14, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith

Come see with new eyes on Jan. 13, 20

Larry Grimes will share lessons from “The Gift of Years,” along with wine and cheese, on Jan. 13 and 20 at 6:30 p.m. at St. Barnabas Church, 110 W. North St., in Cortez. The se...

DATE: Jan 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Faith