I saw an offering plate before I was even old enough to attend church. My father was a lay elder and church treasurer. This usually meant I got to stay and play with my friends long after the ...

Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church, located at 5300 Dover Road in Reisterstown, built wooden desks for children in need on Saturday for about four hours, beginning around 8 a.m.

These days, preachers may be able to avoid the sting of a bad sermon, at least in the short term — as passing the offering plate, once a staple of worship, has largely halted due to the COVID-19 ...

Churches use guilt and guile to prey on gullible givers during the offering every Sunday. This is how the “Sunday morning stickup” works.