Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and members of other faiths will gather Thursday for an Interfaith Service of Prayer and Remembrance at St. Mark s Episcopal Church in Little Rock.
Helen Lanier Porter, the Little Rock philanthropist whose generosity aided medical research, spiritual efforts, the arts and more, died Tuesday of a stroke, her family said. She was 81.
It might seem far-fetched for an Episcopal priest from Little Rock, Arkansas, to be working on an interfaith prayer house in Mongolia, a mostly Buddhist country. But for Susan Sims Smith, it’s just the latest stage of her longtime dedication to interfaith work. “I’m deeply committed to Christ,” she said. “And I also have a lot of blessings from Hindu and Buddhist spiritual
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