Developers of a biblical theme park in Kentucky said Tuesday they have raised over $3 million toward the building of its main attraction, a life-sized Noah’s Ark. “Just as God brought the animals to Noah by the appropriate time (Genesis 6:20), He’s providing the resources for this dynamic experience,” read an announcement by Ark Encounter,... Continue Reading

The relationship between the two organizations dates back more than 125 years, and Texas Baptists continues to provide funding, partner in ministry and elect a quarter of the leaders on Baylor’s Board of Regents. In the past decade alone, the organization has given $29 million to Baylor. Months after Baylor Universitydecided to allow non-Baptists on... Continue Reading

(Editor’s Note: Ruling Elder Arklie Hooten is the Disaster Relief Coordinator for the Presbyterian Church in America’s Mission to North America committee. This update was released Tuesday morning.) The recent tornado in Joplin, Missouri has impacted our PCA congregation, Christ the King. The storm has killed more than 140 people making it the most deadly... Continue Reading

Meanwhile, details of where Family Radio’s millions of dollars it receives in donations goes is kept private, even from board members. Insiders tell Elmendorf that there are big pet projects in Africa and millions poured into TV programs Richard Rodriguez remembers Family Radio fondly. Growing up in the 1980s, he tuned in to the Christian... Continue Reading

Abraham Kuyper likely would have found the political discord of his time similar to the modern-day rancor that reduces some evangelicals to finger-pointing polarization, said Stephen Grabill, director of a Grand Rapids, Michigan Christian think tank. The ecumenically minded Dutch politician, journalist and theologian who wrote his persuasive three-volume treatise, “Common Grace” before his death... Continue Reading

The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs cannot stop a pastor from invoking the name of “Jesus Christ” in his Memorial Day prayer at Houston National Cemetery, a federal judge said Thursday. Scott Rainey, lead pastor at the Living Word Church of the Nazarene, on Thursday filed a lawsuit requesting a temporary restraining order against the... Continue Reading

“People are looking for a framework for social justice or something, and they have a hunger for it in their heart, and they don’t know how to articulate it or interpret it,” said Mako Nagasawa, co-author of the Lazarus curriculum and an advisor to the Asian Christian Fellowship group at Boston College. No sooner had... Continue Reading

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is attempting to take a hearty tax chunk from a new church facility, even though a state law prevents churches from having to pay real estate taxes. Northmoreland Baptist Church in Wyoming County is defending a position on churches and real estate taxes, even though churches being exempt from taxes is... Continue Reading

The Aquila Report has received the text of a letter addressed to the Senior Chaplains in the Army, Navy and Air Force concerning both conducting same sex marriages at military facilities as well as the role of Bible-believing chaplains in counseling homosexuals. Among the endorsing agents (representatives of dozens of denominations to provide service to... Continue Reading

About 2.3 million people are locked up in America’s jails or prisons. After they finish their time, 73% of those released prisoners will wind up committing another crime and getting re-incarcerated. “I had come to realize that criminals are very selfish people,” says prison Warden Burl Cain. “They take your money, your property, anything they... Continue Reading