The expected economic impact is $795,600. The event is open to the public, but pre-registration is required, and will close when conference space is filled. Two thousand people are expected to attend the Presbyterian Church of America Global Missions Conference Nov. 5-7. Mission to the World, co-sponsored by Covenant College, will host the conference at... Continue Reading

The Jesus film explains that the New Testament tells how Jesus is laid in a tomb-like cave after his crucifixion. Three days later, Jesus is said to have risen from the dead. As miners were being pulled from Chile’s San Jose mine Wednesday, most were wearing tan T-shirts over their coveralls. The Chilean government told... Continue Reading

She earned a music-education degree from King’s College, in New York City, a master of divinity from the Reformed Theological Seminary at Orlando and her Ph.D. from Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, in San Francisco Elizabeth Earle-Warfel’s Christian beliefs may clash with Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual stages of development and Carl Rogers’s humanism, but she... Continue Reading

An ailing 92-year old Billy Graham…, an original organizer of the first Lausanne Congress on Evangelism in 1974, brought greetings, telling a new generation of young evangelicals…to continue the mandate to go into all the world and proclaim the gospel To the throb of African drums more than 5,000 participants sang and raised holy hands... Continue Reading

(Speaking at a Christian college event) the candidate said she is a proponent of public education, not only K-12, but also higher education. Third District Democratic congressional candidate Jane Dyer visited Erskine Tuesday and talked to a group of interested students, faculty and staff and local residents about her candidacy. Her appearance was sponsored by... Continue Reading

The first two Lausanne Congresses had a far greater percentage of American mainline Christianity than at next month’s event, Scates said. But he’s still counting on a world-changing experience. Much has changed since the last Lausanne Congress, which took place in Manila, Philippines, in 1989. Aside from the onset of the Internet age and the... Continue Reading

That China’s underground Christians could get together to choose delegates and raise more than $1 million to cover their costs would have been unthinkable a decade ago. A massive global evangelical gathering known as the Lausanne Congress will begin Oct. 16 in Cape Town, South Africa. But it looks likely to take place without the... Continue Reading

The goal…is to build the programs off “existing competencies and capabilities,” integrating classes and professors already at Covenant while hiring more as needed. With no deeply controversial decisions about budget or contentious votes on the table, Covenant College’s Board of Trustees was able to set their focus on the school’s future during last week’s meetings.... Continue Reading

“We want to help the church to be respectful of all its neighbors, to help those who want help and to be compassionate toward people who may hold a different worldview from us.” A national Christian organization will stop sponsoring an annual event that encourages school students to “counter the promotion of homosexual behavior” because... Continue Reading

“Theistic evolutionists”…have sought to reconcile Darwin’s theory with their religious beliefs, often at the cost of clarity, orthodoxy, or both. As a result, the whole subject of God and evolution is a source of confusion for many believers. Can you believe in God and Darwinian evolution at the same time? Scientists and scholars have an... Continue Reading