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

U.S. contributors to the site include Dr. Timothy Keller, pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, and Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor of University Reformed Church, East Lansing, Mich A sweeping revision of the internationally acclaimed “Christianity Explored” course officially debuts today in the United States. “Christianity Explored” (www.christianityexplored.org) is designed to give people... Continue Reading

He still looks out of place—an energetic white man in khakis and a polo shirt walking the streets of run-down neighborhoods, many of them predominantly African-American. But he is treated as a fixture. Bryan knows and speaks to everyone he sees. They know him and the Challenge House ministry he founded. Wally Bryan, 64, spent... Continue Reading

After it sat vacant and mostly forgotten for two years on the outskirts of Bexar County, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater finally has a new owner. River City Community Church bought the amphitheater last month, and pastor Sean Azzaro is excited about the new, spacious home for his evangelical flock. But how did a church wind up... Continue Reading

Corwin Smidt, a political science professor at Calvin College, received a 2011 Fulbright Award, which he will use to write a book on the evolution of political and theological perspectives of U.S. clergy during the past 20 years, while in Middelburg, the Netherlands, at the Roosevelt Study Center. Later this year, Smidt will head for... Continue Reading

Six years after the evangelical world debated the merits and appropriateness of making Bible translations more gender inclusive for words dealing with people, the divide is becoming evident once again. At issue is the 2011 translation of the New International Version (NIV), which is being released six years after the full version of the 2005... Continue Reading

Wallace and Eleanor Turnbull (Baptist Haiti Mission) aren’t interested in finding more Americans to work in Haiti. They believe the best help for the country comes from within: well-educated, Haitian Christians leading their own country by example. When Dieuseul Saint-Ange’s mother contemplated a name for her fourth child, the Haitian woman in a rural town... Continue Reading

“If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” Jesus didn’t heed that advice from Thumper Rabbit’s mother. Apparently neither Mary nor Joseph turned up the oil lamp to read Disney’s version of Bambi to him. Rather, reading the gospels we often hear Jesus’ strong denunciations of people and practices that perpetuate injustice.... Continue Reading