‘Doomsday’ preacher Harold Camping will leave his ‘radio pulpit’ at the end of June. Camping took questions live from listeners every weeknight on Family Radio’s Open Forum program. Ever since the 89-year-old broadcaster suffered a stroke on June 9, Family Radio has been airing re-runs of his 90-minute program. Family Radio will air pre-recorded segments... Continue Reading

Erskine college was among three colleges removed which had previously been put on the warning list last year by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and School (SACS). In an article posted in the online edition of Inside Higher Education earlier today, Erskine was removed from the list, although the writer... Continue Reading

(The pastor) told investigators he contacted the superintendent of the district church and another unidentified pastor to discuss the situation. He said after discussing the situation, it was agreed that the “incident was nonreportable because of the ages of the children,” according to the complaint narrative. A former Walworth (Wisc) minister may not be the... Continue Reading

Approximately 25,000 people lost their lives in Japan’s March 11 earthquake and tsunami. And even in the country that is arguably the best prepared and organized for disaster in the world, many of its citizens are still homeless, living in shelters, or houses unfit for habitation. The Tohoku East Coast, made up of small coastal... Continue Reading

Others whose homes were flooded are left to themselves to haul out all the debris and clean it up. Very little help, besides church volunteer groups, is being offered. And culturally they may even find it difficult to accept that help because it creates what they call “obligation”. From much of what we saw in... Continue Reading

The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament is a new exegetical commentary series published by Tolle Lege Press. The series will be authored by sixteen ministers from five countries representing ten different Reformed denominations. The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary seeks to be rigorously exegetical, God-centered, redemptive-historical, sin-exposing, Gospel-trumpeting and teeming with practical application.... Continue Reading

Wild Goose is pitching bigger theological stakes. Franciscan friar Richard Rohr will lead a workshop; as will “recovering evangelical” writer Frank Schaeffer, son of the 1970s evangelical icon Francis Schaeffer. It’s summer. It’s hot. It’s the South. That must mean it’s time for an old-fashioned camp meeting. Starting next Thursday, the bygone staple of the... Continue Reading

With the joining of the RPC, ES to the new southern denomination, Presbyterian Church in America, and the subsequent growth of the PCA in the early l980s and the declining need for the Presbyterian Journal, Joel led the effort to form a new magazine, WORLD, which would report the news of the world from a... Continue Reading

Author and pastor Tim Keller wrote, “If you don’t believe Adam and Eve were literal but realize the author of Genesis was probably trying to teach us that they were real people who sinned—Paul certainly was—then you have to face the implications for how you read Scripture. . . . In June, after WORLD’s articles... Continue Reading

While there are differences over strategy, we have in the past had a consistent bipartisan consensus on the principle of protecting the poor. This was true in 1990, 1993 and 1997. Those deficit-reduction agreements, along with strong economic growth, led to the balanced budgets in the late 1990s, proving that deficit reduction does not have... Continue Reading