A recent addition to the policy prohibits students from hanging hammocks in front of Carter Hall, referred to as “our ‘front yard’” in a campus-wide email. In the continuing effort to enhance the face of Covenant’s campus, Student Development has begun emphasizing rules regarding the use of hammocks on school property, including the possibility of... Continue Reading

Kevin Ezell, pastor of one of Louisville’s largest congregations, has been elected president of the North American Mission Board, a vast network of more than 5,000 Southern Baptist missionaries and other church workers. Ezell, who has been pastor of Highview Baptist Church since 1996, was elected after about four hours of deliberations Tuesday morning by... Continue Reading

We are living through a time when our failures in the realm of words, thoughtfulness, and ethics have roused us to re-attend to the venerable questions raised by faith and liberal learning. One of this year’s presenters, Katherine Paterson, says that “The consolation of the imagination is not imaginary consolation.” Among other things, Paterson’s comment... Continue Reading

A member of Grace Presbyterian Church (PCA), McCune has organized a program that will focus on several works in that African nation. Jessica McCune believes the world is small enough to reach out and touch someone in Uganda. A member of Grace Presbyterian Church, McCune has organized a program that will focus on several works... Continue Reading

“I don’t want to give some Cracker Jack box message and say, ‘Based on what I know, this is how I interpret this.’ There has to be more than that.’’ Sammy Ortiz is proud of his small, diverse church in downtown Tampa and believes he found his calling when he became a born-again Christian while... Continue Reading

“As people of the Book, we are joined to Islam and Judaism in a special way. As an organization that has sought to put that Book into people’s hands for 201 years, we cannot stand idly by while the sacred text of a sister religion is burned as our beloved Bibles once were.” In what’s... Continue Reading

“My wife passed in 2008 from cancer. I never knew there were so many rules for widows and widowers. Rules about how long you can mope along, when you can go out on a date, how many times you can cry in the pulpit! Rules! Not Scripture! Rules!” At East End Baptist Church, January Bible... Continue Reading

When his 95 theses were nailed to the castle-church door of Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, Martin Luther could hardly have imagined the massive developments that would take place within the church, family, politics, science, and society. The effects of the Reformation remain with us to this day; in fact, the world has been shaped... Continue Reading

“…critics have taken shots at the museum’s concept and staff. The pinnacle of ridicule came in the form of cable television star Bill Maher, who snuck into Ham’s office one day to do a taping for his movie…” Ken Ham, the Australian-born creator of the Creation Museum, looks around the throng of about a thousand... Continue Reading

BTGMI is the new name for the ‘Back To God Hour’, a 70+ year radio ministry of the Christian Reformed Church, featuring Peter Eldersveld and Joel Nederhood Back to God Ministries International, which has 34 evangelistic and discipleship ministry websites, has launched its new, Christian Reformed Church agency website, http://backtogod.net/ With this new site, people... Continue Reading