The fire that raged for hours on Easter Sunday at Faith Lutheran Church is considered suspicious and officials are seeking the public’s help in investigating.

In the aftermath of a six-alarm fire Easter Sunday at Faith Lutheran Church, a 114-year-old steeple was removed Tuesday and a crowdfunding campaign was started for the structure’s eventual rebuilding.

The steeple at Faith Lutheran Church in The Port neighborhood must be taken down after a six-alarm fire Easter Sunday that persisted for four hours. Church leaders and the congregation are looking for their next steps.

A fire reported at Faith Lutheran Church in The Port at 5:30 p.m. lasted some four hours Easter Sunday, drawing aid from numerous surrounding communities.

The Cambridge Community Iftar, the evening meal when Muslims break their fast after sunset during the holy month of Ramadan, drew a record crowd to the Cambridge Street Upper School on Wednesday. Ramadan is a period of introspection, communal prayer and reflection on the Quran.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, author Eleanor Catton visits from “Birnam Wood” and Margaret Atwood tells of “Old Babes in the Wood”; there’s music, comedy, a Maple Syrup Boil Down and queer wrestling, an end to “Bittersweet” art and the “Podcast But Outside” guys set up in Davis Square.

I knew the Harvard Divinity School’s Rev. Peter Gomes only as a boy; on the anniversary of his death Feb. 28, 2011, I now marvel at the man he became.

As the Cambridgeport neighborhood grew and changed over decades and many Black residents were displaced, St. Augustine’s had a period of disrepair.

Sacred spaces were established Monday on each Cambridge Public Schools campus, making the district a leader in New England, education officials said.

Being married to a pastor’s son but knowing she was queer was the starting point for Jeanna Kadlec’s journey out of the evangelical church, but her memoir “Heretic” goes deeper and broader into the religion’s hidden political and social impact.