Faith Communities

Looking to buy holiday gifts that are local and sustainable, and maybe catch a Ten Pound Fiddle concert when you're done shopping? Tom Oswald tells you how to do it in East Lansing this weekend.

Upwards of five hundred people gathered at East Lansing’s Congregation Shaarey Zedek last night to support the Jewish community in the wake of Saturday’s massacre of eleven people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. ELi's Alice Dreger reports.

In response to Saturday's massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue, East Lansing's Congregation Shaarey Zedek will hold a prayer service this Thursday evening. Community members are invited to attend. Ann Nichols reports.

What does a nine-year-old heading into the fifth grade at Marble have in common with the owner of a local yarn store? Both felt the need to do something to help refugee children separated from their parents. ELi's Ann Nichols has the story.

East Lansing residents who are interested in “Going Solar” can learn how at the Islamic Center of East Lansing this Saturday, April 28. Jessy Gregg reports.

Responding to the local appearance of a white nationalist group, hundreds of area residents gathered yesterday for a Celebration of Diversity Festival at All Saints Episcopal Church. ELi's Jessy Gregg reports.

In response to white nationalist Richard Spencer coming to speak at MSU on March 5, All Saints Church will play host to a Celebration of Diversity Festival. ELi's Rosalind Arch reports.

What's a Whiffenpoof, and why would you want to see them live on Sunday night? Eli's Sarah Spohn explains.

The Interfaith Clergy Association of Greater Lansing includes representatives of several faith traditions and provides an opportunity for its members to support and teach each other as well as reaching out to support peace and tolerance in the community.

The City has decided not to appeal a judge's preliminary decision in the farmers' market lawsuit, so Country Mills will remain at the market while the lawsuit plays out.

Peace Quest 2017 kicks off today with a Peace March in East Lansing. Jim Detjen reports on the history of the event and on actvities planned for the week.

In a decision issued today, a federal judge ordered that the City of East Lansing must allow Country Mills to return as a vendor at the East Lansing Farmer's Market while the court decides a lawsuit involving questions of religious freedom and discrimination against same-gender couples.

Eva Schloss and her family were captured in Holland by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday. Seventy-three years later, the celebrated author, activist and step-sister of Anne Frank comes to East Lansing to share her story. Berkley Sorrells reports.

This Saturday, Edgewood United Church will host a Musical Brunch fundraiser to support Salus Center, a new LGBTQ resource center. Jeanette McWaters has the story on the fundraiser, the Center and its founder.

Postcards, emails, and phone calls are still coming in, calling on the City of East Lansing to change its position on a local farmers' market vendor suing the City over religious freedom. But the City is determined to defend its civil rights policies prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.