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"Furever" Friends Pet Adoption Event

Hope Mills Community Library and Cumberland County Animal Services joined forces for the 'Furever' Friends Pet Adoption Event on Feb. 19, bringing together adorable companions in search of their …

Mardi Gras Taco

Cooking4Fitness hosted a festive and flavorful Mardi Gras celebration in their Open Kitchen space on Feb. 13. Participants created healthy and delicious tacos as a mix celebration of Taco Tuesday and Fat Tuesday.

Cooking4Fitness hosted a festive and flavorful Mardi Gras celebration  Feb. 13, 2023 in their Open Kitchen space.  Participants created healthy and delicious taco's as a mix celebration of …

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Someday you'll thank me
Mary’s beloved neighbor, Snyder Memorial Baptist Church.

Love thy neighbor

My husband and I have lived in the same house for more than 31 years. During this time, we have had many wonderful neighbors. We live in a house across the street from Snyder Memorial Baptist Church that used to be the church rectory.
Family Matters

Church without the itch

When it comes to the weekly Sunday-morning-getting-ready-for-church experience, my children really don’t know how good they have it. If they utter so much as a single deep sigh over having to turn off their cartoons to go to their rooms, get dressed, and fix their hair, I will threaten to tell them, once again, what church attire was like “back in my day.”
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Editor's Take

A case for deconstruction

Faith is an experiential thing, easy to define but difficult to describe. In thinking about and exploring faith on my own over the years, and with others, my sense is this: some people truly own their faith. Others, in a manner of speaking, have only leased or borrowed it.
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Love at a Romanian checkpoint

William Tyler Kenley (left), James Mina Kenley (William and Andreea's son), Andreea Kenly, and Ana Theodora Kenley (William and Andreea's daughter) pose in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in the June heat after Andreea and the kids got back from a trip to Romania when the kids were 5 and 1. Photo courtesy Andreea Kenly.
“I’ll never get married again,” said Andreea Mihaela Buleu after a tough divorce. A Romanian citizen, Buleu decided to leave nursing to enlist with the Romanian military police. She …
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