The Office of Dr. David Norman, President of Erskine College and Seminary, announced that Dr. Stephen D. Lowe, Sr. has been appointed Interim Executive Vice President for the seminary to replace Dr. Neely Gaston who resigned on Thursday. Here is the text of that announcement from Dr. Norman: I have asked Dr. Stephen D. Lowe,... Continue Reading

The refugees are among more than 40,000 Bhutanese exiles who have migrated out of camps in Nepal over the past three years. The exodus, overseen by the United Nations, has dispersed a stateless people across dozens of cities in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Of all the wonders the Mainali family... Continue Reading

The UN estimates that 810,000 Haitians continue to sleep outdoors. One reason: Of $8.36 billion pledged in aid commitments by donor nations last March, less than $3 billion has been received. The good news: About 690,000 people have been moved off the streets to new temporary or permanent housing, and of those most have adequate... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: One of our semi-regular bloggers, Iain Campbell, pastor of the Free Church of Scotland congregation on the Isle of Lewis in northwest Scotland. This past week he attended – along with 1/3 of the ministers in the Free Church – a continuing education event (they call it ‘in-service’) at the Free Church College... Continue Reading

“We were selected to provide service to the school, and within a month we had equipment in, services provisioned, and students online. Brocade was a huge part of simplifying the process.” In an effort to support electronic learning initiatives on and off its campus, a small college in rural South Carolina will be overhauling its... Continue Reading

Each day was made up of four hours of classroom work with our professor in the AM, followed by three hours of lab work (back in that day, it was tapes and earphones). Needless to say this was full immersion. Prior to being commissioned as an Officer in the Chaplain Corps of the United States... Continue Reading

Speakers include 14 from Presbyterian Church in America and 12 from Southern Baptist Convention; most of the rest are from independent, non-denominational and/or Bible churches. About the 2011 National Conference Many pastors and Bible teachers hunger to handle the Old Testament with more confidence—in the same way that New Testament writers handle it, in a... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: One of our semi-regular bloggers, Iain Campbell, pastor of the Free Church of Scotland congregation on the Isle of Lewis in northwest Scotland. This past week he attended – along with 1/3 of the ministers in the Free Church – a continuing education event (they call it ‘in-service’) at the Free Church College... Continue Reading

RUM began in the mid-1970s at the University of Southern Mississippi. As the ministry spread to other colleges and universities in Mississippi, a joint committee for campus work was developed among the three Mississippi Presbyteries, Grace, Mississippi Valley and Covenant. In an open letter, dated January 6, 2011, to ruling and teaching elders in Mississippi... Continue Reading

The inquiry began at the request of evangelical Christians who shared their alarm with Senator Grassley about how the six ministries appeared to be using donations from the faithful to buy airplanes, lavish homes and jewelry, and to run profit-making businesses for leaders and their family members. All six are “prosperity gospel” ministries… A three-year... Continue Reading