Father J. Michael Byron, pastor at Pax Christi Catholic Community in Eden Prairie since 2018, died early Friday morning, May 20. He was 62. According to a message to Pax Christi parishioners sent by...

Ben Roethlisberger and Tony Dungy talk about their faith during the "Arise With the Guys" event at Grace Church in Eden Prairie on April 23. Photo courtesy of Grace Church Football brought Ben Roethlisberger...

As I write today, on April 24, it’s Eastern Orthodox Easter Sunday in Ukraine, one week later than on our Church Calendar; in the east, based on the Julian calendar rather than on the Gregorian calendar...

Early in the morning before the dawn on the first day of spring, my dad died 25 years ago ... and amazingly, my brother Don who lived in Florida, was also there with all six of us boys in the family!  On...

Pastor Michael Crawford of Grace Church in Eden Prairie recently joined the city's volunteer Police & Fire Chaplain Unit. Pastor Michael Crawford The announcement was made Thursday, March 10,...

It is the year 1517, and furious over the church’s selling of indulgences — passes that supposedly get dead loved ones out of Purgatory — a grim Martin Luther is walking down a street in Wittenberg,...

The case can certainly be made that our society, and even the whole world, has been grieving our way through this global pandemic together. Why wouldn’t we turn to classic and seminal writings on...

Ask me, “Which is the longest season?” I’d answer liturgically, “Pentecost.” It’s longer than Easter, which is seven weeks; Lent, which is six weeks; Advent, which is four weeks; or Christmas,...

My wife, Julane and I lived in Arizona for a full year of seminary internship in a wonderful congregation learning and growing under the supervision of a much-loved pastor friend and a helpful team of...

There is hyperlocal news happening every day in Eden Prairie. All of us working and writing to bring it to you in the Eden Prairie Local News find great joy in the effectiveness and efficiency of modern...

How do very conservative Christian denominations view a congregant’s choosing to take his mental and spiritual problems to a secular psychologist? Pastor Dale Hummel heads Eden Prairie’s Wooddale...

It’s as simple as breathing in and breathing out – respiration. Inhaling and exhaling are so natural and voluntary that we don’t even need to think about them, but they are the very definition...