This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin. And we take you now to southwestern Virginia, where a small struggling church is getting a second life thanks to a new pastor who's mixing old ...

Josh Stillman is spending his summer with the Appalachia Service Project. He files this report from Whitesville, West Virginia. One day every week ASP staffs treat their volunteers to something called ...

On Saturday, the Union Baptist Church of Blackfork will be added to the National Park Service National Underground Railroad ...

Religion has always been an integral part of the Appalachian lifestyle, especially along remote mountain thoroughfares where neighbors often depended on one another for moral sustenance. Religious ...

Rev. Brad Davis is reimagining the rural Appalachian church. This entails imagining a new gospel – a gospel rooted in the reality before him. Take a ride with Davis along the two-lanes that thread ...

(RNS) — 'Our main goal is to represent Christ and to be with Christ’s people — to represent God and to be with God's people while we are in God's creation,' said the chair of the Appalachian Trail ...

There’s nothing a teenager likely wants to do more than spend their summer working outside in the hot sun, while enjoying living conditions that may not include hot water, a shower, air conditioning ...

Deborah Pennypacker has never admitted to liking or even knowing anything about thru-hiking. “Me, hiking? Not at all. But I like being outside, and I like biking,” said the 60-year-old Chesapeake ...

A tiny Presbyterian church in southwestern Virginia is coming back to life, thanks to a new pastor who's mixing old-time Appalachian culture with a new twist on worship. This is WEEKEND EDITION from ...