Beverly Wallace News Today

Single parents raising children by themselves have been helped by the Press Herald Toy Fund for generations. This year, rising costs of housing, high energy bills and a shortage of child care are pushing many single parents over the edge. “I am going though a lot financially,” wrote a mother of a 2-year-old son and […]

This year, with the inflated cost of living also straining household budgets, many families experiencing health challenges are turning to the Press Herald Toy Fund for help.

Sometimes vocation springs not from you but from trauma and grief.

Mailboxes and Roses When I got to my mailbox at the end of my daily walk down the mail-path, there it lay, bang in the wet grass by the road. “Rats,” I thought, “somebody’s bumped into it and knocked it down.” But the mail lady told the postmaster that it had come away in her hands, the post rotted off flush with the ground. This was a special post that I’d put up myself, sturdy and braced, and it had lasted 15 of the 40 years the mailbox has been there. But I hadn’t sealed it in...

December 14, 2020 Cheryl Stewart Pero, one of the first Black Luth­eran women to be ordained in the United States, died on October 28 after a short illness and hospitalization. She was 69. In 1980, Pero became the second Black woman ordained in the Lutheran Church in America, a predecessor body of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She was also the first Black woman to receive a PhD in biblical studies, which she earned at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. She later went on ...