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BRIEF: Myrtle Grove Presbyterian to present Maundy Thursday drama

| Apr 4, 2012

Myrtle Grove Evangelical Presbyterian Church will present a visual narrative of the final days of Jesus in Jerusalem at 7 p.m. Maundy Thursday (April 5) at the church, 800 Piner Road. The presentation will be a multimedia experience including worship and communion. Childcare will be provided for k...
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COMMENTARY: Why we’re hungry for ‘The Hunger Games’

| Apr 4, 2012

[slideshow] By DICK STAUB c. 2012 Religion News Service Reprinted with permission (RNS) "The Hunger Games" has sold 26 million copies and is the first young-adult book to sell a million copies on Kindle. When it was released in theaters on March 23, the film version broke box office records for a...
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What did Jesus do on Holy Saturday?

| Apr 3, 2012

By DANIEL BURKE c. 2012 Religion News Service Reprinted with permission (RNS) Every Christian knows the story: Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. But what did he do on Saturday? That question has spurred centuries of debate, perplexed theologians as learn...
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Send us your favorite Easter bonnet photos

| Apr 3, 2012

When I was growing up, maybe we didn't wear feathered hats to church every Sunday. But for Easter, we put on our best for God. We're talking little white bonnet, white shoes and a new flowered dress. Please share photos of your family's best Easter finery - hats, bonnets, suits, corsages and flu...
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In reversal, board OKs contraceptive funding

| Apr 3, 2012

By Shannan Bowen Shannan.Bowen@StarNewsOnline.com Copyright 2012 StarNewsOnline.com Reprinted with permission Sitting before a standing-room-only audience Monday night, the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners narrowly voted to approve the state bonus money for contraceptive supplies -- a co...
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Of a sarcophagus and pageantry, an Easter memory

| Apr 3, 2012

I grew up in a pre-Vatican II Church, so my strongest memories are those of grammar school years. I was deeply affected by the doctrines, instructions, rules and regulations promulgated by the religious sisters who taught in the parochial schools I attended. We children were imbued with the solemnity and sanctity of Holy Week.
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Photos from Rock Beyond Belief in Fayetteville this weekend

| Apr 2, 2012

Local photographers Louis Shackleton and Joseph Stewart documented the Rock Beyond Belief concert at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville this Saturday (March 31). Here are some of the shots they took to compliment Contributor Han Hills' Week of Reason for WilmingtonFAVS.
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The Week of Reason, Part 3 - Rock Beyond Belief

| Apr 2, 2012

Old friends and new hearts. After the Washington D.C. Reason Rally and American Atheists Convention, it had been a long week for the Freethought movement. And many expected low spirits and low turnout at the Rock Beyond Belief concert at Fort Bragg on Saturday (March 31.) They were proved resoundingly wrong.
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Packed crowd for annual Wrightsboro Living Cross Easter cantata

| Apr 2, 2012

By AMANDA GREENE WilmingtonFAVS No seats could be found inside the sanctuary at Wrightsboro Baptist Church for its annual Living Cross Easter drama on Sunday (April 1). And the centurions were getting restless -- standing outside the church practicing their most menacing "Grrrs" while waiting...
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Holy Week means remembering Jesus and remembering family

| Apr 2, 2012

  By Contributor Tracy Bua Smith   Yesterday was Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week, and it's exactly one week before Easter Sunday. Each Palm Sunday, Catholic Churches hand out blessed palm branches to the congregation. The above picture are palms from last year that we made into...
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