The Lord has some strange ways of calling on people, says the Rev. Phillip R. Glick. "This time, the call is coming from God through Uncle Sam," Glick said yesterday, a few minutes before his final service as rector of St. David's Episcopal Church in Chesterfield County.
Liberty University is moving ahead with a series of campus improvements, including preparations for a new artificial ski slope. Logging began late last month for the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Center. The year-round ski facility, slated to cover almost an acre of Candlers Mountain, is being made with the synthetic material Snowflex.
As many as 100 pets -- mostly dogs, but also a couple of chickens and several cats -- were the special guests for a spiritual ceremony at Monroe Park in Richmond yesterday.
The Lord has some strange ways of calling on people, says the Rev. Phillip R. Glick. "This time, the call is coming from God through Uncle Sam," Glick said yesterday, a few minutes before his final service as rector of St. David's Episcopal Church in Chesterfield County.
The dialogue began slowly. Five members of the gay activist group Soulforce held hands and stood to face about 50 Liberty University students behind the school's DeMoss Hall. They had just returned from donating five gay-affirming Christian books to the school's library, and Caitlin MacIntyre invited onlookers to join them in singing "Amazing Grace."
MUSIC Mass of the Children, 2 and 8 p.m. today, Church of the Holy Comforter, 4819 Monument Ave.; $10. Details: (804) 779-3454. Dominio Trio, and Virginia Harmonaires, tonight at 7, Gospel Chicken House, 14709 Greenwood Church Road, Montpelier. Details: (804) 883-6487 or <a href="http://www.gospelchickenhouse.org" target="_blank">www.gospelchickenhouse.org</a>.
Faithand community-based Virginians who serve displaced workers will be honored Friday, Oct. 3, 2008, by Brent Orrell, deputy assistant secretary for Employment and Training, U.S. Department of Labor. Orrell will be the keynote speaker for the SHARE (Sharing How Access to Resources Empowers) Network meeting and awards ceremony at 10:45 a.m. at John Tyler Community College in Chester, Va.
More than 2,000 Muslims from the Richmond area gathered for yesterday's service. Eid al-Fitr is a day of festivity and gift sharing among family and friends.
To make Rosh Hashana more engaging, Keneseth Beth Israel began the new year doing something different. The synagogue on Patterson Avenue in Richmond's West End held two services simultaneously yesterday.
Through Sunday, a tour of a life-size reproduction of a sanctuary built during the time of Moses is not only possible, but it can be done in about an hour. On display at Courthouse Road Seventh-day Adventist Church off Midlothian Turnpike, "Messiah's Mansion" is a traveling exhibit of a sanctuary built in the wilderness 3,600 years ago.
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