One of the few people to see the collection is David Elkington, a scholar of ancient religious archaeology who is heading a British team trying to get the lead books safely into a Jordanian museum. He says they could be “the major discovery of Christian history”, adding: “It’s a breathtaking thought that we have held... Continue Reading

Ohio Presbytery has overtured the PCA General Assembly to eliminate funding for byFaith and byFaithonline.com. Such a move, the overture claims, would remedy the Administrative Committee’s (AC) funding problems. The overture, introduced by Rev. David Bayly, passed by a voice vote at the presbytery’s January meeting. Between 15 and 26 percent of the AC’s budget... Continue Reading

“Imagine going to an academic conference.. Not one sponsored by CCCU but the real professional conferences in whatever field we’re talking about. Now imagine a college president getting up at that conference and warning us not to pursue our studies into our fields too deeply lest Satan use our explorations for his own subversive purposes.... Continue Reading

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal in the case of a narcoleptic teacher who sued a Christian school for discrimination based on disability. At issue is whether Cheryl Perich was a secular or religious employee at Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School in Redford, Mich. If religious, the judicially created “ministerial... Continue Reading

The owner of the cache is a Bedouin named Hassan Saeda who lives in the village of Um-al-Ghanam in the north of Israel, according to the Sunday Times. He is believed to have obtained them after they were discovered in northern Jordan. Two samples were sent to a laboratory in England where they were examined... Continue Reading

This kind of scholarship is not new. It’s been going on for at least 150 years. But few churches have kept apace and, as polls consistently show, most Christians know little about their faith, even less about how the Bible came to be. A 2010 survey on religious knowledge by the Pew Forum on Religion... Continue Reading

The 39-year-old sociologist from Rice University joins a younger group of Christian college leaders. Gordon College has selected Michael Lindsay, assistant professor of sociology at Rice University, as its next president. Lindsay will begin on July 1 at the Christian liberal arts college in Wenham, Massachusetts. At age 39, Lindsay will join a younger cohort... Continue Reading

According to…one of America’s preeminent scholars of religion, it is time to redefine our terms. Stark is quite forthright in saying that the true mainline Protestants in America are now evangelicals. And the old mainline is, in his words, the “sideline.” Frederick Schmidt wrote a recent article wondering about the future of seminary education, entitled,Is... Continue Reading

Tuesday AM updates from OPC Missionaries Woody and Laurie Lauer and Luke Cummings Update on the Lauers from the OPC Foreign Missions Web Page: This morning we again heard from OPC missionaries Woody and Laurie Lauer in Numazu, Japan: Friday, March 11, 2:46 pm. Earthquake 9.0 followed by tsunami off the Tohoku coast. Whole towns... Continue Reading

Wednesday AM updates from MTW (Lowthers and Wilsons) and CRASH Japan (plus a bonus Tokyo newspaper story) Update from MTW’s Roger and Abi Lowther, Grace City Church Tokyo Just got off the subway this morning. Ghostly in appearance: Lights half off, vending machines unplugged, escalators not moving, paper signs and police tape…it is NOT “business... Continue Reading