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A tiny Presbyterian church in southwestern Virginia is coming back to life, thanks to a new pastor who's mixing old-time Appalachian culture with a new twist on worship. This is WEEKEND EDITION from ...

Last week was the six-year anniversary of the explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, West Virginia that killed twenty-nine coal miners. I will not soon forget that Saturday’s vigil Mass ...

As the toll of overdoses continue to rise, congregations provide recovery, medical care, and redemption. It was the prayer requests that caught the new minister’s attention. Not long after Lisa Bryant ...

Woven: An Appalachian Tapestry is a concert by Renatum, West Virginia's professional choir, celebrating the musical traditions that have shaped the Appalachian region. The program brings together folk ...

Deborah Pennypacker has never admitted to liking or even knowing anything about thru-hiking. “Me, hiking? Not at all. But I like being outside, and I like biking,” said the 60-year-old Chesapeake ...

(RNS) — 'Our main goal is to represent Christ and to be with Christ’s people — to represent God and to be with God's people while we are in God's creation,' said the chair of the Appalachian Trail ...

A tiny all-white Appalachian church in rural Kentucky has voted to ban interracial couples from joining its flock, pitting members against each other in an argument over race. Members at the Gulnare ...

A tiny Presbyterian church in southwestern Virginia is coming back to life, thanks to a new pastor who's mixing old-time Appalachian culture with a new twist on worship. This is WEEKEND EDITION from ...

This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. And we take you now to southwestern Virginia, where a small struggling church is getting a second life thanks to a new pastor who's mixing old ...