By Green, Todd The causal link between modernization and secularization forms the core of secularization theories.

By Jim Stafford, The Oklahoman Dec. 15--Deaconess Hospital will bring Cathryn Hibbs "home" when she officially takes over as its new chief executive officer on Jan. 2.

By Emma D. Sapong For six disabled children in need of around-the-clock medical care, a floor at a geriatric hospital was all they could call home. But Heritage Centers recently changed that -- giving them a real home that offers medical care.

By David Page Free Methodist deaconesses founded an agency in 1900 to provide services to Oklahoma women with unplanned pregnancies. That initial mission for what is now Deaconess Pregnancy & Adoption Services was just the beginning.

By Ja'Rena Lunsford, The Daily Oklahoman Feb. 9--Triad Hospitals Inc. became the official owner of Deaconess Hospital this week when Butterfield Memorial Foundation sold the remainder of its shares to the Plano, Texas-based company.