Entertainment, featured artist announced for annual Boones Creek Day

From gospel and bluegrass music to a variety of food and art vendors, this year’s 4th Annual Boones Creek Day is sure to impress newcomers, as well as bring back regular patrons of the daylong festival. At a scheduled news conference Friday afternoon at the Boones Creek Potters’ Gallery, board members of the Boones...

johnsoncitypress.com (12 hours ago)

Tiger Hotel construction phase nears end, resurrection phase continues

A tax-increment financing agreement with the city soon will begin funneling tax money to the owner to help cover the costs of the renovation. Read more

columbiamissourian.com (12 hours ago)

Community corrections board idea on hold

The resurrection of a community corrections board has been put on hold.

chieftain.com (1 day ago)

Marrow donors sought at blood drive

A Johnson County woman who needs a stem cell transplant is asking people to register as potential donors at a blood drive at the Church of the Resurrection next week.

kansascity.com (1 day ago)

Rupert Parker: Planet Appetite: Baking and Breaking Easter Bread at Thanos Hotels in Paphos, Cyprus

Greek Orthodox Easter is not just a religious festival, but also a time for special food. Bread is particularly important and, in the kitchens of Thanos Hotels, I learn to bake these Easter delicacies. As I leave my car at APH Parking Gatwick and hop on board the early morning Easyjet flight to Paphos I'm wondering...

huffingtonpost.com (3 days ago)

'Dead' Man Woke Up During Own Funeral

Mourners at a recent funeral in Zimbabwe were caught by surprise when the guest of honor sat up in his coffin. According to local reports, 34-year-old Brighton Dama Zanthe, the seemingly dead man, woke up last week while friends and family prepared to pay their respects at his home in Gweru. "I was the first to...

huffingtonpost.com (3 days ago)

ABC Previews 'Betrayal,' 'Mixology,' 'Resurrection,' More (Video)

msn.com (3 days ago)

Flashback Springfield: May 13, 1932

A look back at the news 81 years ago: The kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., son of an American hero and his wife, was a story that so captivated the world, newspaper writer and essayist H.L. Mencken called it the “biggest story since the Resurrection.”

sj-r.com (5 days ago)

Crooks bedevil pastors with Facebook pages

Crooks are preying on the prayerful by creating fake Facebook pages in the name of high-profile pastors. The Rev. Adam Hamilton, leader of Leawood's Church of the Resurrection, is one of many megachurch ministers nationwide fighting this new Internet scam.

kansascity.com (6 days ago)

Are you a martyr?

You will be my witnesses..., (Acts 1:8).Tomorrow is Ascension Sunday. The actual end of the forty days from the resurrection to the Ascension was Thursday, but most churches that observe the event will be doing so on...

examiner.com (6 days ago)

The Walking Dead

Reanimated corpses with a penchant for brains are enjoying a resurrection in popular culture. The comic-book series The Walking Dead,...

thetimes.co.uk (7 days ago)

Mr Putin, Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill and Clifford G Gaddy – review

The emergence of Vladimir Putin can only be understood as the second chapter of a story that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The problem is that there is still little agreement about what happened in chapter one. Most western analysts cling to the notion that Gorbachev and Yeltsin were brave, if...

guardian.co.uk (8 days ago)

Ascension Day celebrated around the world (Photos)

Ascension Day recognizes the day when Jesus Christ was bodily taken into heaven 40 days after his resurrection. The occasion, symbolizing the end of events associated with the resurrection or Easter, is usually held on Thursday, but some churches...

examiner.com (8 days ago)

Art Review: ‘Subliming Vessel,’ Drawings of Matthew Barney, at Morgan

The Morgan Library & Museum presents the first survey of Matthew Barney’s complex graphic work, delving into his themes of death, resurrection and transformation.    

nytimes.com (8 days ago)

Empowered by the Spirit

You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, (Acts 1:8)Today is Ascension Day. It marks the point in the life of Jesus forty days after the resurrection. After spending these forty days giving...

examiner.com (8 days ago)

Hangover 3 Releasing Early, Jurassic Park 4 Pushed Back

The Wolf Pack is getting a jumpstart on the party while Steven Spielberg's dino-powered franchise will have to wait a little longer before it's big-screen resurrection. Looking...

eonline.com (9 days ago)

'Snooper's charter' legislation revived

The government appears to have left open the door to the resurrection of the controversial "snooper's charter" bill to track everyone's email, internet and mobile text use. Whitehall sources confirmed that the possibility of legislation remains under discussion despite a declaration by Nick Clegg that the...

guardian.co.uk (9 days ago)

Mark Sanford wins South Carolina election

The former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford has staged one of the most remarkable comebacks in recent US political history, shrugging off a sex scandal and ethics violation to win a place in Congress. In his victory speech on Tuesday night Sanford made an inevitable comparison with Lazarus.  He thanked God for...

guardian.co.uk (10 days ago)

Sanford Wins S.C. Congressional Race

Former SC Gov. Mark Sanford, seeking political resurrection, wins US House seat    

abcnews.com (10 days ago)

Unlikely NY scribe handwrites Good Book in 4 years

PHILMONT, N.Y. — In the beginning, Phillip Patterson decided to write out every word in the Bible.On empty pages, he wrote of Adam, an ark, locusts, loaves, fishes and the resurrection in his neat, looping cursive. Four years of work begat more than 2,400 pages and left a multitude of pens in its wake. Now, as he...

bostonherald.com (11 days ago)

Unlikely New York scribe handwrites Good Book in 4 years

PHILMONT, N.Y. (AP) In the beginning, Phillip Patterson decided to write out every word in the Bible. On empty pages, he wrote of Adam, an ark, locusts, loaves, fishes and the resurrection in his neat, looping cursive.

qconline.com (11 days ago)

And in the fourth year, man who copieth Bible by hand hath almost finished

In the beginning, Phillip Patterson decided to write out every word in the Bible. On empty pages, he wrote of Adam, an ark, locusts, loaves, fishes and the resurrection in his neat, looping cursive. Four years of work begat more than 2,400 pages and left a multitude of pens in its wake.

mercurynews.com (11 days ago)

New York man spends four years copying the King James Bible – by hand

Inspired by Islamic tradition, Phillip Patterson is close to finishing a 2,400-page handwritten copy of the Bible begun in 2009In the beginning, Phillip Patterson decided to write out every word in the Bible.On empty pages, he wrote of Adam, an ark, locusts, loaves, fishes and the resurrection in his neat, looping...

guardian.co.uk (11 days ago)

Several area churches celebrate Easter

MAYFIELD - Hundreds of people sang and honored the resurrection of Christ at several area churches on Sunday to celebrate Easter under Orthodox Christians' Julian calendar. Dozens of people packed St. John's Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Mayfield and St.

thetimes-tribune.com (12 days ago)

Romanian nuns celebrate Easter among the skulls of their dead sisters as Orthodox Christians...

The nuns of Pasarea monastery near Bucharest marked the resurrection of Jesus Christ with a service in their ossuary.

dailymail.co.uk (12 days ago)

Seward harbor in need of more upgrading

It's a brisk, sunny early spring day in Seward. Scudding clouds barely break the relentless blue of the sky beyond the chilly, cobalt waters of Resurrection Bay. Inside the city…Click to Continue »

adn.com (12 days ago)

Jim Heynen: A country's anger pierces even the silence of the forest

By Jim Heynen We live in the Manistee National Forest where, each year, as spring first creeps and then roars to life all around us, I think about death. It isn’t religion’s observance of Passover’s Seder or Easter’s resurrection that...

mlive.com (12 days ago)

Vatican fresco found with first European depiction of Native Americans

An art restorer uncovered the first known European depiction of Native Americans while cleaning dirt off a Vatican painting of Christ's Resurrection. The 1494 fresco by Renaissance master Pinturicchio has hung in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace for about 500 years but has received little restoration work.    

nydailynews.com (14 days ago)

Lively dance raises the dead

It takes a lot of living to make great art about dying. Stephen Petronio is no longer the hot, young post-modern dancer he was in the late ’70s. Now 57, he’s something more — a mature artist. His new work, “Like Lazarus Did,” is about resurrection. There’s no plot...

nypost.com (15 days ago)

Controversial 'Gabriel stone' tablet goes on show in Jerusalem

The so-called Gabriel Stone, said to have been found 13 years ago in Jordan, features an unknown prophetic text from the time of the Second Jewish Temple, which some researchers claim references a messianic resurrection pre-dating Jesus.

dailymail.co.uk (16 days ago)