“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

Messiah College alumni have launched an online petition urging the Granthan, Pennsylvania evangelical school to change its policies towards gay and lesbian students. The petition collected nearly 260 alumni signatures in its first 36 hours this week Some who signed indicated they would withhold donations to an alumni fundraising campaign as long as the college... Continue Reading

In March, President David A. Norman told James Hering, a professor of the New Testament in Erskine’s seminary, that he would not receive tenure, though his application had been approved by the seminary’s tenure committee months earlier. Erskine College’s new president denied tenure to a faculty member who has been at odds with the governing... Continue Reading

After years of vile tirades outside the funerals of fallen soldiers and other uncalled for pickets, Americans are getting their own back on some of the nation’s most disliked people. When two women and a man from Westboro Baptist church took their stance outside Hilliard Darby High School in the western suburbs of Columbus, Ohio... Continue Reading

We stand with LGBTQ persons before God as persons created in God’s own image, and also as sinful persons in need of God’s forgiveness and love through Jesus Christ, God’s Son. We carry a burden for our students, faculty, staff and alumni who experience same-sex attraction because of the pain they so often experience, and... Continue Reading

Senior Jared LeFebre, another member of Clan MacLauren, hopes that Highland Games become a tradition of Covenant College. “I could see the whole student body really getting into the games and looking forward to it as one of their favorite events.” Despite the cold front on Saturday, seven clans came out to the Highland Games... Continue Reading

By their very nature, house churches are designed for spontaneous growth. Each begins with the purpose of reproducing itself. Each begins person by person, home by home, drawing people into an intimate community of fellowship focused on discovering God. Worldwide, house churches are growing as a way of “doing evangelism and church.” Eight years ago,... Continue Reading

Though rarely discussed, the division between ministers and parishioners involves professional, interpersonal, educational, and financial components, and I wonder if it’s that cultural boundary that causes misconceptions to arise between these two groups of people. Anyone who has ever served in a staff or paid ministry position knows how hard these roles can be. That’s... Continue Reading