Organizers began reaching out to students last week by passing out informational fliers outside a chapel service. Soon after, Wheaton College President Philip Ryken sent an internal email to all students, faculty and staff that cited passages in the Bible that condemned homosexual behavior. Alumni from Wheaton College have formed an organization to provide support... Continue Reading

As soon as I turned west, I was in the middle of rubble. I walked by a used car lot with half the vehicles gone. A Mustang was impaled on the shaft of a tree nearby. A Ford Crown Vic was upside down on top of what used to be a pawn shop. I stopped... Continue Reading

The resolution to change MVP’s campus ministry affiliation came to the floor with the unanimous recommendation of MVP’s Mission to North America Committee, and an 8-2 vote of the current Mississippi Joint Committee on Campus Work (MJCCW). At its stated meeting on May 3, held at Grace Chapel, Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Miss., the... Continue Reading

(The) study…was sponsored by 11 denominations and church planting networks, including Southern Baptists’ North American Mission Board, Assemblies of God, Presbyterian Church in America and the Evangelical Free Church of America. An online Church Planter Candidate Assessment made its debut at a church planting conference in Orlando, Fla., April 26-29. Nearly 100 church planting leaders... Continue Reading

Union University will develop plans for a new library, apply to NCAA Division II and launch a new publishing project after trustees approved all three measures in their spring meeting April 29. Trustees also approved a record $89.4 million budget for the university for 2011-2012, a 10.2 percent increase from this year’s budget. The library... Continue Reading

Defense Department statistics show that about 9,400 of the nation’s 1.4 million active-duty military personnel identify themselves as atheists or agnostics, making them a larger subpopulation than Jews, Muslims, Hindus or Buddhists in the military. In the military, there are more than 3,000 chaplains who minister to the spiritual and emotional needs of active duty... Continue Reading

Two British authorities on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philip Davies and Margaret Barker, have argued, after seeing images, that the codices—and their possible Christian link—should be taken seriously The fate of the Jews who followed Jesus is one of the puzzles of the history of monotheism. The New Testament has much to say about a... Continue Reading

Recent storms have left catastrophic damage all across the southern and southeastern US. The PCA’s Mission to North America Disaster Response continues working with churches in the affected areas to help assess damages and determine how best to utilize volunteers. From preliminary reports we anticipate there will be major financial and physical needs. Here’s how... Continue Reading

Oak Mountain Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Birmingham is coordinating with Mission to North America’s Disaster Response team to provide disaster relief. Reed DePace, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Montgomery, provided this report on the tornado that hit Alabama. Here in Montgomery we are about an hour south of the southern end of the storm... Continue Reading

Following posted on the Covenant College website: Many in our community have suffered loss and significant challenge from yesterday’s events and would covet your prayers in the coming days. We are grateful to report that all our residential students are safe and the campus escaped direct impact from the storms, however we have nonetheless been... Continue Reading