The ground search for a monk who went missing from Sravasti Abbey last week has been suspended by the Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s office. Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal), 64, went for a walk on the evening of Nov. 7 on the abbey’s 300-acre property and did not return.
Read MoreSandwiched between a laundromat and an appliance shop, is the only halal store in the southeastern Washington state and central Idaho area known as The Palouse. Until June, PNW Halal Meats, LLC had been hidden away on the northeast side of town in Pullman, Washington, close to the Washington State University campus. The store was cramped with a confined parking lot, easy to miss if one wasn’t looking for it.
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Over the past eight years, Sravasti Abbey has grown apace, ordaining six nuns, two monks and adding three previously ordained nuns to their community. Most recently, Geshe Dadul Namgyal, an esteemed Buddhist scholar, joined the Abbey as the first male resident teacher.
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St. Getrude’s is a Benedictine monastery in rural Idaho that was founded by Swiss nuns in the United States in 1882 and moved to Cottonwood in 1907. Today the property includes the monastery, an inn, a retreat center, gift shop and a chapel.
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The Lilly Endowment as part of its Compelling Preaching Initiative will award $75 million to help Christian pastors, “strengthen their abilities to proclaim the Gospel in more engaging and effective ways.” Proposals are due in May 2023.
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Between 2010 and 2020, nondenominational churches expanded by 2 million attendees and 9,000 congregations in the U.S., according to the 2020 U.S. Religion Census, which was released last week. Nondenominational churches now make up 4% of the U.S. population and constitute the third-largest religious group in the country after Catholics and the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Christine Eddy spent the last three years of her life fine-tuning the story she had kept secret most of her days. She had been married to, and raised a family with, a white supremacist. Her Catholic faith kept her fighting for her marriage and for her husband.
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When New Dover United Methodist Church in Edison, New Jersey, closed its doors in 2020 to prevent the spread of COVID-19, parishioners went home and made sandwiches. They haven’t stopped. To date, they have made 100,000 sandwiches for the hungry in their neighborhood.
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According to the U.S. Census, Idaho continues to be one of the fastest growing states. It’s also highly conservative. Now during the pandemic, some towns are seeing influxes of residents from nearby states seeking more freedom from COVID-19 restrictions on worship.
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