Christian Encounters: Departure of KLBJ's Pryor gives listeners a choice
The departure of Paul Pryor from KLBJ-AM (590) last week has put the morning hours in Austin talk radio up for grabs. Suddenly talk listeners are faced with choice - a giddy sensation.Pryor is starting a new talk show on KFIT-AM (1060) Monday, to air weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon. KFIT came on the air last year with a mixed format of Christian talk and secular information, but that format was quick to melt down. KFIT has been limping along broadcasting innocuous music interspersed with a...
Christian Encounters: RELIGION NOTES
* Blessing of Fleet at Lake Norman Lake Norman Children's Relief will host its second annual Blessing of the Fleet at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The fleet of ships - an eclectic assembly of watercraft including sailboats, canoes, jet skis, kayaks, motorboats and rubber rafts - will parade into the harbor and past the dock of the Lake Norman Yacht Club, 297 Yacht Road, Mooresville, where a gathering of area clergy will pray individual blessings on each vessel and the crew.To join...
Christian Encounters: Contemporary Writers Share How the Bible Touches Their Lives
Communion Edited by David Rosenberg Anchor Books 547 pp., $30 In "Communion," the spiritual successor to "Congregation," an earlier volume in which Jewish authors wrote of their relationship to the Hebrew Bible, poet and editor David Rosenberg has gathered another series of essays on the Bible. They are written not by Biblical commentators and scholars but by 36 living fiction authors, literary critics, and poets, mostly Americans,...
Christian Encounters: Local radio show host to spread the word world-wide
Faithful listeners of Don Crawford's Sunday evening talk show Christian Encounters will soon be sharing him with 40 million other people from around the world. Crawford, who lives in Wells Branch with his wife Gloria and three children, will be carried regularly on the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service this winter.The KLBJ-AM talk show is unique, said Chaplain Dick Davenport, coordinator of religious programming for Armed Forces Radio and Television Service....
Christian Encounters: NEW EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CONGREGATION IN THE PLANNING STAGES
A group of evangelical Lutherans in the area will meet with a pastor on Sunday to discuss plans for a new congregation.The Rev. Dennis A. Kleist of Morton Grove, Ill., will present the process of church planting and explain the steps of building a ministry. The congregation will be called Our Savior Evangelical Lutheran Church and belong to the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Kleist is on the denomination's mission board.The meeting will be at 203 Westridge Court in...