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

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