The Fellowship and ECO will each devote a portion of our time to meeting separately; news and updates, questions and answers, building networks and creating some initial affinity groups. In addition, 22 breakout sessions will cover a wide variety of topics on different aspects of living together in these new relationships.

Despite our long-standing ties to the Southern Baptist Convention, Calvary has for some time been at odds with many of the policies and public positions of the SBC. There have been many specific issues, like a rejection of the ordination of women, for example, over which we disagreed. But increasingly these differences became more foundational.

The BOP claims that allowing ministers to opt out on theological grounds would represent a “dramatic change in the fundamental polity of the denomination” and claims it would “compromise and jeopardize the theological foundation of the community nature of the benefits plan.”

Today the United Church of Canada is literally dying… Back in the 1960s, the liberal churches bet their future on becoming more open, more inclusive, more egalitarian and more progressive. They figured that was the way to reach out to a new generation of worshippers. It was a colossal flop. Two weeks from now, the... Continue Reading

It takes an intentional commitment to abandon fads and gimmicks, to hold fast to the Bible in both content and methodology.  And it takes a willingness to do the painstaking work of patient contextualization, continually discerning the fine line between inspired innovations and unbiblical shortcuts. In the previous three posts (here, here and here) I have been... Continue Reading

Charles Wilson said it was a huge disappointment that he and his wife couldn’t get married at the church they attended because of the color of their skin. A Jackson couple had their wedding rehearsal last week, two days before their scheduled big day at the Crystal Springs church where they were planning to get... Continue Reading

Evangelical pastors and churches from almost all theological and denominational camps are capitulating like dominoes to the homosexual agenda and other sexual compromise – some more publicly than others. Earlier this month, homosexual activists complained to the Advertising Standards Authority against a billboard by ‘Light of the nations church,’ Pretoria which said that Jesus could... Continue Reading

“At a time when the Christian faith faces challenges from other religions as well as secular worldviews, the new Archbishop of Canterbury must be committed to uphold the orthodoxy of the Christian ‘faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints’” --from a letter by 17 bishops.

A shell congregation of the Falls Church that disagreed with the over 90 percent vote to leave the Episcopal Church has continued to meet and now possesses the large property. Reportedly fewer than 100 attend its services in a facility that once accommodated thousands. One of its recent preachers was a radical former missionary forced... Continue Reading

But breaking with the church in which one has been nurtured in the faith, often from childhood, can be like abandoning one’s mother. Like marriage, according to the Book of Common Prayer, such a decision should not be made unadvisedly or lightly, but reverently, deliberately, and in the fear of God. The words of the apostle Paul are surely pertinent here: “Let everyone be persuaded in his own conscience.”