The Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church are flexing their collective muscle to launch a joint church planting project in four “test areas,” including West Michigan. It marks the first collaborative church multiplication venture between the two denominations since they split in 1857. Dubbed Kingdom Enterprise Zones, the three other states tapped... Continue Reading

The United Methodist Judicial Council has ruled that the New York Annual (regional) Conference resolution and policy allowing clergy “to marry at their own discretion” is “neither valid nor constitutional.” The council upheld the church’s current prohibition against same-sex marriage and pastors who are “self-avowed practicing homosexuals.” A policy adopted but not yet implemented by... Continue Reading

The change to the district’s bylaws had been in the works since 1993. That year, the denomination scheduled a Thomas Jefferson Ball and encouraged members to come in period costume. African Americans objected, asking whether they should wear “rags and chains.” To many Americans, Thomas Jefferson is a symbol of liberty and religious freedom, the... Continue Reading

Although a BBC camera crew recorded the arrests during the first week, the government has since tried to block media access, briefly detaining a CNN crew on Easter and preventing three Al-Jazeera reporters from accessing the site on May 1, Asia News reported. For the fourth week in a row, a Chinese “illegal” church refused... Continue Reading

“One of the silver linings of this economic recession is that where these manses exist, they have become huge assets to pastors and their congregations,” Ewing said. The ongoing upheaval in the real estate market has added new appeal to the old-fashioned church manse. Presbyterian churches use the term “manse” to describe a residence for... Continue Reading

One of the properties is 820 acres owned by Rock Ministries, which operates Rock Church. The other is 519 acres owned by Kempsville Presbyterian Church (EPC). Both tracts are in the southern part of the city. The city is in negotiations to buy two huge parcels of land owned by churches in the rural southern... Continue Reading

In 1831, 20 years after the congregation of Harpeth Presbyterian Church started, a land-owner gave the low-lying land on Hillsboro Road next to the Little Harpeth River to the church. And until 1950, the church had just a dirt floor. “Ironically, we’re on some of the most worthless land in Williamson County,” says Jones. “But... Continue Reading

The translators of the King James Version followed an essentially literal philosophy of translation. In other words, they saw it as their task to present the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures in readable English that most nearly reflected the words and forms of the original. English-speaking Christians around the world celebrate the 400th anniversary of the... Continue Reading

Great Lakes Presbytery overtures the 39th General Assembly of the PCA to encourage the Administrative Committee within the next year to equip, to the best of its ability, byFaithOnline and byFaith Magazine to financially stand on its own outside the support of the Administrative Committee. At its stated meeting on Saturday, April 30, Great Lakes... Continue Reading

Mr. Wasko was following a strategy taught by Redeemer Presbyterian Church, which opened in New York in 1989 and has fueled the city’s evangelical renaissance. Most Sundays, Redeemer and its pastor, Timothy Keller, draw 5,000 people to five services in three locations; its church-planting arm, Redeemer City to City, has helped start 170 churches in... Continue Reading