LANSING — Templo Calvario, a Hispanic church which meets at First Lutheran Church, has outgrown its white host church and seized control of service times.
“We’re bigger, we’re more excited and we’re taking Sunday mornings,” said Fernando Gonzalez, the newly emboldened Hispanic pastor. “They can have 3 p.m. and see how they like it.”
The Templo crew also claimed the main church office, forcing First Lutheran’s staff into broom closets and back rooms which formerly housed Templo’s offices.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Sally Warner, 43, became a Christian while reading the biblical book of Titus. A week later she submitted a form to the DMV requesting a personalized license plate. But her request for a plate reading “TITUS 4U” arrived at her home reading “TITS 4U.”
“I was crushed,” Warner says.
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SARASOTA, Fla. —John Royal, pastor of Peace Christian Fellowship, the largest church in the city, was long considered a pillar in the community.
Then he opened a Twitter account.
Now Royal’s random and frequent tweets are dimming his once-sterling reputation.
“We loved the idea of Pastor Royal tweeting nuggets of wisdom throughout the day,” says Carissa Black, one of several young staff members who urged Royal to embrace the new medium. “But he’s run away with it. It’s having the opposite effect we hoped for.”
Royal’s first tweets were conservative — scripture verses, previews of upcoming sermons and reminders about church events. Then, over time, his pace picked up considerably and his subject matter broadened.
NASHVILLE — It sounded like a good idea.
Music producer Mike Davis brought together two popular Christian artists, Carman and Kirk Franklin, to perform a duet.
“It was supposed to be a Paul McCartney-Stevie Wonder thing, ‘Ebony and Ivory,’” he says. “Two performers at the top of their game.”
Instead, it became an underground classic.
The song Carman and Franklin came up with, “Glory Be,” had “lots of silence and random ‘Hallelujah’s and ‘Mm-hm’s,” says one musician who heard the track. “Nobody really took the lead. It was just like a funky breakdown with Carman and Kirk making occasional noises.”
Dean Batali and LarkNews creator Joel Kilpatrick met at the Rocky Cola Café in Montrose, California, on February 20, 2012, to discuss Batali’s career as a television writer.
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Batali: I’ve been running a show in Canada.
LarkNews: They have shows in Canada?
Batali: They do. Over the past year and a half I’ve spent about four months in Canada.
LarkNews: What’s the show?
