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Swimming. Hiking. Hot dogs.

These words often are associated with summer camp.

Kids & Culture Camp is different. For four weeks each summer, children ages 3 to 12 gather in the nation’s capital to cook Jamaican food, listen to African music, learn about Mexican history and Japanese clothing, practice Brazilian martial arts and tour the Tanzanian embassy.

“Our mission is to inspire children to love learning, embrace culture and to live mindfully,” said Jania Otey, a member of the Perry Hill Road Church of Christ in Montgomery, Ala. She launched the camp 12 years ago while living in Washington, D.C.

Gabriel Grant Huff reports.

COVID-19 stinks.

That’s not exactly breaking news, right?  

For 2½ years, I somehow avoided the coronavirus. But during a recent reporting trip to Chicago, I tested positive for the first time.

Bobby Ross Jr. shares the behind-the-scenes story of what happens when the editors gets COVID-19.

States, lawyers and legal scholars are continuing to evaluate the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which overturned the decision in Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion cases and held the U.S. Constitution does not, in fact, recognize a right to terminate a pregnancy.

Kenneth Pybus offers an in-depth analysis of the decision.

Crowley’s Ridge College and Harding University College of Pharmacy signed an agreement in June that will make it easier for students to earn a doctorate in pharmacy, the Christian schools — which are associated with Churches of Christ — announced.

Calvin Cockrell reports.

Fred Gray was meeting with the Alabama State Bar Association at a retreat in Destin, Fla., when his phone rang.

The famed civil rights attorney, still practicing law at age 91, answered. It was his son.

“He told me that he had somebody on the phone who wanted to talk with me,” Gray said. “Believe it or not, it was the president.”

Days later, Gray stood in the East Room of the White House as President Joe Biden placed a star-shaped medallion, surrounded by tiny eagles, around his neck.

Hamil Harris reports from Washington.

The third time was a charm for a mission team from Churches of Christ in Ohio. The group had to scuttle plans to travel to the Scottish city of East Kilbride in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But as restrictions eased in 2022, the church members successfully made the journey across the pond.

Erik Tryggestad reports.