Hope College Upholds Traditional Policy on Gays Despite Protest
A Reformed Christian college in Holland, Mich., on Friday rejected petitions by gay rights advocates and alumni to drop its policy on homosexuality. After months of protest and criticism sparked by a decision not to allow the film “Milk” to be screened on campus, Hope College’s board of trustees reaffirmed its position that homosexual practice... Continue Reading
From Clergy Shortage to Clergy Glut
Small congregations—those with 100 members or fewer –make up the majority of U.S. Protestant churches, and in those pulpits, there’s still a shortage of ministers After a decade-long clergy shortage in America’s pulpits, Christian denominations are now experiencing a clergy glut—with some denominations reporting two ministers for every vacant pulpit. “We have a serious surplus... Continue Reading
Revitalization Conference for Evangelicals in Mainline Churches scheduled for August
The Association for Church Renewal is a strategic alliance of renewal leaders representing over 30 renewal ministries in the mainline denominations of the U.S. and Canada. ACR will sponsor “Answering the Call: Replanting, Revitalizing and Pastoring the Church” a conference scheduled for Aug. 6-8 at Elmhurst College, Chicago, Ill. Keynote speakers include: Ed Stetzer, director... Continue Reading
Family Research Council Founding Member Denies Gay Prostitution Allegation
FRC President Tony Perkins: “FRC has had no contact with Dr. Rekers or knowledge of his activities in over a decade so FRC can provide no further insight into these allegations.” On Tuesday (May 4), the alt-weekly newspaper the Miami New Times ran a much discussed story about a man named George Alan Rekers. You... Continue Reading
Liberty University Board of Directors Support Seminary President Amid Charges of Misrepresentation
Seminary President Ergun Caner and his brother, Emir, president of Truett-McConnell College in Georgia, are often featured in Southern Baptist circles as experts about Islam. The president of Liberty Theological Seminary, who apologized in February for calling the head of the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board a liar, is now being questioned about his... Continue Reading
Advice to Pastors from the T4G Leadership – From Mark Dever
“If an experienced pastor had 10 minutes to exhort 200 of the next generation of ministers what would you say to them? That was the charge for Albert Mohler Jr., Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan and C.J. Mahaney” (Editor’s Note: The Aquila Report will publish all four of the responses separately over the next week or... Continue Reading
Bruce Waltke Called by Knox Seminary Board
On April 30, 2010, the board of Knox Theological Seminary in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., voted unanimously to call Dr. Bruce Waltke Distinguished Professor of Old Testament. As reported here, Dr. Waltke resigned from Reformed Theological Seminary on April 5, 2010 because of differences regarding the nature of the biblical account of creation. Knox Seminary released... Continue Reading
Nashville Flood Response from Mission To North America – Many PCA Families Affected
“And all who believed were together and had all things in common.” Acts 2:44 Dear PCA Family, And now Nashville…On May 2 and 3, 2010 torrential rains fell in the Nashville, TN area and resulted in record flooding. Rain totals in some areas were greater than 17 inches and the Cumberland River crested at nearly... Continue Reading
Bloggers Target Seminary President
Liberty’s Ergun Caner accused of false statements in his testimony about converting from Islam. Liberty University’s board of directors has declined to take public action against Ergun Caner, president of the university seminary, as bloggers raise doubts about Caner’s account of his childhood as a Muslim. ………… “It’s not an ethical issue, it’s not a... Continue Reading
Elizabeth Dole, PCUSA Minister to send off Grove City College’s largest graduating class
Dole will address approximately 615 graduates at 10 a.m. May 15 in an outdoor ceremony on the Quad between Harbison Chapel and Crawford Hall. Grove City College will send off its largest graduating class in school history with a Commencement ceremony headlined by former U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole. Dr. Jay Passavant, senior pastor of North... Continue Reading
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