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Africana studies professor, Joseph Brown, silently reflects during a vigil remembering victims of the Orlando shooting Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Grinnell Hall. (Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko)

At a crossroads: Addressing racism in the Catholic church

By George Wiebe, Staff Reporter
February 28, 2021
One of the members of the Laborers Local 773, Mary Smith, loads a box of produce into a truck at Pandemic Relief Food Distribution event in front of the Banterra Center. Smith says, Weve been doing this food drive since April and were working off a grant from the US government...and were doing it until the grant runs out. Pandemic Relief Food Distribution event in Carbondale took place on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020 at SIU.

Marion High School junior organizes Learning Center food giveaway

By Janae Mosby, Staff Reporter
December 10, 2020
The sunset illuminates Pulliam Hall with warm light Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017, at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. (Brian Mu–noz | @BrianMMunoz)

Opinion-Empty Pews: A Christian response to closing churches during the pandemic

By Bethany Rentfro, Staff Reporter
May 4, 2020
Easter decorations are set up on a front yard on Monroe Street in Niles, Illinois on Sunday, April 12. The Facebook group “Emerson Place Neighbors” requested families in the neighborhood to put up an Easter display so area children can have an egg hunt that follows social distancing guidelines.

Photo of the Day: “Happy Quarantine Easter!”

By Danny Connolly, Guest Contributor
April 12, 2020
Food is their niche: Zion UCC provides food packages for children, families in need during COVID-19

Food is their niche: Zion UCC provides food packages for children, families in need during COVID-19

By Bethany Rentfro, Staff Reporter
April 6, 2020
Patrick Hogge, left, a senior studying aviation technology from Taylorville, carries the cross along with members of the Baptist Collegiate Ministry to the Morris Library on Tuesday, March 27, 2018, during their annual crosswalk event leading up to Easter Sunday. Through Jesus we have been given a great gift, something that we could never attain on our own, Hogge said. Its not something that runs out, its not something we have a limited quantity of so we just want to share it with as many people as we can. (Cameron Hupp | @CHupp04)

Students carry cross on campus, ‘the crosswalk is a way for us to become public with our faith’

By Farrah Blaydes , Staff Writer
March 28, 2018
Monsignor Ken Schaefer lights the candle of Braden Burris, of Energy, while Johnston City resident Blake Gualdoni, with cross, and Gavin Shramm, of Herrin, observe prior to a Lenten ceremony of Stations of the Cross on Friday, March 24, 2017, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Herrin. Born in Belleville and raised in the St. Clair County village of Millstadt, Schaefer was ordained a priest on June 8, 1974. The priest has presided over the southern Illinois parish since 1994. (Jacob Wiegand | @jawiegandphoto)

Local priest reflects on faith, fellowship and his parish family

By Jacob Wiegand
May 12, 2017
Rev. Ed Hoke leads a prayer Sunday, April 16, 2017, during the Easter sunrise service at Bald Knob Cross of Peace in Alto Pass. Hoke is the minister of Mission Expansion at Little Grassy United Methodist Camp in Makanda. (Branda Mitchell | @branda_mitchell)

Video: Easter at Bald Knob Cross of Peace

By Andy Phillippe
April 16, 2017
Daily Egyptian file photo

Gallery: Easter at Bald Knob Cross of Peace

By Morgan Timms, Branda Mitchell and Athena Chrysanthou
April 16, 2017
(Jacob Wiegand | @jawiegandphoto)

Photo of the Day: Band-Aid on the bell tower

By Jacob Wiegand
April 7, 2017
Emmalie Hall-Skank, a senior from Streamwood studying interior design, gazes up from inside a bamboo forest Sunday, March 5, 2017, during an afternoon hike with members of the Southern Illinois Pagan Alliance at the Marberry Arboretum off Pleasant Hill Road in Carbondale. The group hike was organized by Tara Nelson, founder of SIPA and a 2002 SIU graduate. Because [Paganism] is a nature-based spiritual practice, for us, this is church, said Nelsen. Being able to watch this change of the seasons and recognize that this so much a part of human existence, like seriously, this is church. For us, being out in nature is more sacred than any building ever could be. Although this was SIPAs first group hike of 2017, Nelson said she plans to facilitate more group activities in the coming months.

Photo of the Day: ‘For us this is church’

By Morgan Timms
March 5, 2017
Holocaust survivor Marion Blumenthal Lazan greets Zion Henry, 7, of Carbondale, following her speech Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, at the First United Methodist Church in Carbondale. Lazan, who immigrated to the United States with her family in 1948, told the story of her journey as a Jewish child in Nazi controlled Germany and at Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in Germany where she and her family were imprisoned. I try to teach my kids strong messages like these, said Zions mother, Alexis Henry, who is a graduate student in behavioral analysis and therapy. Its important to me that they learn to continue to love, learn and live in spite of all of the bad things. (Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko)

Holocaust survivor: Life in concentration camp was ‘a devastating time’

By Tyra Wooten
December 7, 2016
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