by Robert Mitchell

The first time she walked into the building, she wasn’t a Salvation Army officer or even a Christian. She’d been invited by Jean Sainteme, who attended church there and had chosen this as the location for the couple’s first date. “My mother was impressed because he did not invite me to a club or to party or to drink. He invited me to church

by Robert Mitchell

The Salvation Army’s music and arts programs help children (and even some adults) find a place to belong and use their talents to bring glory to God.

by Robert Mitchell

Keith Bryant Sr. is known as the singing Salvation Army bell ringer outside the Roche Bros. Supermarket in Westborough, Mass. A Worcester resident, the 60-year-old Bryant has been ringing the bell for 24 years now and mixes in Christmas classics and oldies for his shoppers.

by Hugo Bravo

Sometimes when I sit down to write about immigrants and their connection to The Salvation Army, my mind goes back to April 10, 1988. That was the day my mother and I boarded a plane from Lima, Peru, to Newark International Airport. I was 5 years old. My father, who’d arrived in the United States two years prior, had a rented rear-lot house ready for us in Paterson, N.J., a city that, its residents like to say, has more Peruvians than any other place in the world, minus Peru itself.

by Robert Mitchell

The mere mention of artificial intelligence, or AI, conjures up images of a high-tech, dystopian time when machines mimic humanity and take over the world, but the truth is, many elements of AI have been around for a while.

by Warren L. Maye

In Pennsylvania alone, as many as 3,000 young people live in foster care holding centers designed for 48-hour stays. Now more than ever, families are needed nationwide to provide hundreds of thousands of children with loving foster homes, and maybe even adoption.

by Robert Mitchell

Anna and I couldn’t have been more different beyond our love of journalism and dedication to our chosen field. I grew up in a conservative family in the Midwest and became a born-again Christian at a young age. Anna hailed from the Northeast and was proud of both her liberalism and her Jewish faith. It’s fair to say we didn’t agree on much outside of the newsroom we shared every day, just a few desks apart. I had been at the newspaper for almost a decade when she came on board. I found out later there was some concern that we would clash.

by Robert Mitchell

Long before she performed “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)” in front of worldwide audiences with Hillsong United, singer Taya Smith-Gaukrodger took part in community worship nights that sometimes met at a tiny Salvation Army church in her hometown of Goonellabah, Australia. “What was really special is it was held in a poorer part of the community, and I just loved getting to see The Salvation Army be right at the center of getting to help people,”Taya recalls. “What’s really cool is I can still picture the cross in that church and you could see it from many different vantage points in the community. I loved that experience.