In a blog post Feb. 9, Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research, which was cited in the column, said Calvinism is the new Baptist bogeyman, a nonthreatening issue that distracts the convention from real dangers. In the past, those who preached against the Purpose Driven movement and the emerging church movement ultimately drove out a... Continue Reading

General Synod puts off split over ordination of female prelates by delaying legislation for fine tuning until final approval in July. The archbishops of Canterbury and York has avoided humiliation in the Church of England’s law-making body, the General Synod, by putting off a split over the ordination of women bishops. The synod voted against... Continue Reading

Coe said his organization has partnered with Southern Baptist churches across the USA and Canada in forming churches in non-traditional spaces. “As evangelicals, we don’t believe the building is the church, the people are the church,” Coe said. “The building itself has taken on less importance.” Ron Williams is the pastor of Church at the... Continue Reading

The city council lacks the legislative jurisdiction to change state law, but if passed, the resolution would give the issue greater weight in the state assembly. The resolution, though, first must be voted out of the education committee, and then the city council speaker must schedule a vote before the entire council. With a weekend... Continue Reading

In the opinion of the General Assembly any of our church courts have the right and responsibility to bear witness against any printed publication which is circulated within their bounds, which in its judgment inculcates injurious opinions, whether the author be dead or living, or whether in our denomination or not At its January 2012... Continue Reading

Whereas, BCO Chapter 58-5 states that the elements of bread and wine are to be distributed separately, “…Here the bread is to be distributed. After having given the bread, he shall take the cup, and say…,” and At its January stated meeting, Savannah River Presbytery approved sending an overture to the PCA 40th General Assembly... Continue Reading

Located near Kansas City, Colonial [Presbyterian Church, with one campus in Kansas and one in Missouri] left the PCUSA following an overwhelming 927-27 vote in August 2010. Citing theological differences with the denomination, the congregation also approved a move to join the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC). A Missouri presbytery lost its second attempt to seize... Continue Reading

In a final presentation, [Seminary President Paige] Patterson revealed the purpose of a conference “focusing on Anabaptism in a Baptist Context” — namely, to “rejuvenate interest in Baptist life concerning the Radical Reformation.” Patterson expressed his “confidence that, while Baptists owe much to the magisterial Reformation, their own ecclesiastical and theological life mirrors that of... Continue Reading

…[we} affirm that the Scriptures…teach that Adam and Eve are historical individuals, that Adam and Eve were specially created by God through His direct intervention and that God formed Adam, the first man, from the dust of the ground…[we}deny that Genesis 2:7 means that God acted upon a group of humans or hominids to set... Continue Reading

“I disagree with the opinion written by Judge Pierre Leval that: “A worship service is an act of organized religion that consecrates the place in which it is performed, making it a church.” This is an erroneous theological judgment; I know of no Christian church or denomination that believes that merely holding a service in... Continue Reading