A few Fridays ago, at 4:30 in the afternoon, about 10 of us — board members and volunteers — gathered at West Central Episcopal Mission to perform a cleansing and blessing of our several properties, buildings and land that had been home to Holy Trinity Episcopal Church for over 100 years. It was not a good day to be late.
WASHINGTON (RNS) The change comes against a backdrop of persistent claims from atheists and other nonbelievers that the military is dominated by a Christian culture that is often hostile to unbelief.