Our Saviour’s Lutheran hosting St. Pat’s dinner Saturday
There is a very important place in the Bible. It is referred to as “the potter’s house” in the book of Jeremiah, the 18th chapter. Jeremiah had to find it.
A roundup of church news and notes.
Millions of Indians on Wednesday celebrated the Holi festival, dancing to the beat of drums, smearing each other with green, yellow and red colors and exchanging sweets in homes, parks and streets.
Millions of people in India and around the world celebrating Holi this week.
Some of you might remember Ted Turner’s famous suggestion that we do away with the Ten Commandments. In their place he recommended substituting the Ten Commandments with the Ten Voluntary Initiatives!
Grace UM pancake feed set for March 12
Grand Island native James Golka, bishop of Colorado Springs, Colo., will be the keynote speaker at the West Nebraska Pro-Life Conference.
Members of the Knights of Columbus and Cathedral Ladies hosted the first fish fry of the season at St. Mary's Cathedral in Grand Island on Friday.
In the cartoon “Dennis the Menace,” Dennis was trying to figure out how the escalator worked. He was standing at the top of the escalator watching the steps disappear. Finally he said, “What happens when the basement gets full of steps?”
Here’s a look at area fish fry events
Beginning tonight (Feb. 24) St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Grand Island will be hosting Lenten fish fries every Friday through March 24.
If Easter is associated with celebration and triumphal joy for Christians, Lent is more a season of soul-searching and spiritual discipline. Here are some articles exploring the history and significance of Ash Wednesday and Lent.
Here are 60 spectacular images from the streets of Rio as Carnival makes its full, post-pandemic return in Brazil.
Among sermon writers, there is fascination — and unease — over the abilities of artificial-intelligence chatbots. For now, the consensus is this: Yes, they can write a competent sermon. But no, they can’t replicate the passion of actual preaching.
The technology has panicked educators and prompted school districts to block students' access to the site.
Faith leaders like Rabbi Joshua Franklin of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons in New York have begun to test the capabilities of ChatGPT and other AI chatbots for writing sermons. Many have found that it can in fact write a passably competent sermon, but cannot replicate the passion of actua…
"In Western culture especially, we emphasize our actions as individuals. What we do doesn’t affect just us. We have an influence for good and bad on many others," Safarik writes.
Chapman UM soup supper set for SundayCHAPMAN — The Chapman United Methodist Church, 301 Ninth St., will host a soup supper from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19.
The unveiling of ChatGPT has panicked educators around the country who fear students will use the artificial intelligence powered chatbot it to write their essays and cheat on homework. But some teachers are embracing it, saying it is quickly becoming a tool their students will need in the f…
The unveiling of ChatGPT has panicked educators around the country who fear students will use the artificial intelligence powered chatbot it to write their essays and cheat on homework. But some teachers are embracing it. They say it's becoming a tool their students will need in the future.
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In a New Yorker Magazine cartoon two men are talking over lunch and one says to the other, “I’ve learned a lot in 63 years. But, unfortunately almost all of it’s about aluminum.”
Frank and Teresa Gordoa are the new lead pastors at Abundant Life Church in Grand Island.
Mardi Gras celebration set for Feb. 17
The AI revolution is here. For this video, we’re doing a deep dive into the chatbot taking the world by storm. ChatGPT a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI that allows users to generate human-like text responses and perform various language tasks. In fact, it wrote that sent…
Oliver Wendell Holmes went out for a walk one day near his summer home.
The February Merrick County drive-thru food bank organized by Central City United Methodist Church will be from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, among many items in this week's Church Notes.