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

“There is a large, what we call ‘evangelical, Protestant’ community down here,” McDonald said. “There is a growing need, and now an awareness that something unique is going to happen through Sioux Falls Seminary.” Sioux Falls Seminary is looking to move into Nebraska as a way to expand its mission on the Northern Plains and... Continue Reading

It will also allow him more time for business matters he never fully put aside while at Calvin. Byker has for several years been a director of the InterOil Corp., a publicly traded international oil and natural gas company that conducts shareholder meetings at the college periodically. Gaylen Byker said he wouldn’t change the way... Continue Reading

At a meeting held on May 13, 2001 in Jackson, Mississippi, the Board of Trustees elected Mr. Richard Ridgeway, Esq., as chairman of the board of Reformed Theological Seminary effective June 1, 2011. Mr. Ridgway follows Mr. James (Jim) Moore who served as chairman for 11 years. Mr. Ridgway is the fourth Chairman of the... Continue Reading