A tiny Presbyterian church in southwestern Virginia is coming back to life, thanks to a new pastor who's mixing old-time Appalachian culture with a new twist on worship. This is WEEKEND EDITION from ...

As the toll of overdoses continue to rise, congregations provide recovery, medical care, and redemption. It was the prayer requests that caught the new minister’s attention. Not long after Lisa Bryant ...

When Brian Cole was teaching a class in Appalachian religion at Warren Wilson College, he set up a visit with his students to a conservative congregation in West Asheville. He advised his students to ...

Nothing good comes from a combination of curiosity, local legends, and an old Appalachian church, as TikToker Sarah DeWitt (@justdew.itt) found out. She was born and raised in the Appalachian ...

The Church should in some way learn from and participate in the community and network of Appalachian scholars, activists, and everyday people, reaching across ecumenical divides of suspicion in ...

(RNS) — Chris Estus doesn’t seem like the typical thru-hiker on the Appalachian Trail. Estus is 60 years old, has been married for 35 years and runs his own business in San Antonio, Texas, where he ...

Last week was the six-year anniversary of the explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, West Virginia that killed twenty-nine coal miners. I will not soon forget that Saturday’s vigil Mass ...

@ScholarFromTheHoller and I will be posting some videos together soon! She gave us a tour of her beautiful church home that was once a mountain church built in the 1890s in Appalachia. Be sure to ...

Inspired by a church project that got her “up and off the couch,” Christine Gerst joined a gym recently — a task she’d been putting off for months. The gym membership came after “Walk by Faith,” a ...

A tiny Presbyterian church in southwestern Virginia is coming back to life, thanks to a new pastor who's mixing old-time Appalachian culture with a new twist on worship. This is WEEKEND EDITION from ...