Home education may be “the fastest-growing form of education in the United States,” with the number of homeschoolers in Virginia having grown to more than 30,000–a 37.6 percent increase since 2002. The annual Virginia Homeschool Convention, now in its 27th year, has grown along with the movement, from a few hundred back in 1984 to... Continue Reading

Erskine College and Seminary President Dr. Randall T. Ruble has announced the appointment of Dr. Brad Christie as interim vice president and dean of the college. Christie, an English professor who has worked at Erskine since 1991, will take over his new position on July 1, coinciding with the beginning of the tenure of Dr.... Continue Reading

(Editor’s Note: The Aquila Report encourages you (make that “pleads with” you) to read this article. The sphere of Christian journalism needs WORLD to grow!) For WORLD magazine’s first 20 years, it was easy for us as a fledgling operation to envy the resources and financial stability of the mainstream media. That was then. Now... Continue Reading

The Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson II is the new director of the controversial Washington lobbying office of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Nelson, a third-generation Presbyterian minister, previously pastored a small new church development in a troubled neighborhood of inner-city Memphis. He has extensive connections with organizations seeking to carry on the legacy of the... Continue Reading

Denominations represented included the PCUSA, OPC, PCA, ARP, EPC, Reformed Episcopal, ELCA, RCUS and Assembly of God. Two of the country’s finest contemporary “defenders of the faith” against theological liberalism inspired a national audience in late April as they spoke at the Christianity and Liberalism Teaching and Worship Conference, hosted by Covenant Presbyterian Church in... Continue Reading

(Editor’s Note: Following are portions of a longer interview that Dr. David Norman granted to the Inside Higher Education Web Magazine.) …… (President Elect David) Norman said he has been interested in a career in higher education administration since he was an undergraduate, and long thought about Erskine …… He expressed confidence that the controversies... Continue Reading

We are hopeful that momentum from this meeting can begin a process to increase understanding and seek resolution. The Executive Committee has formed a subgroup to initiate such a process The Aquila Report has learned that there is currently a proposal under discussion by a ‘Subgroup’ of the Board of Trustees of Erskine College and... Continue Reading

The performance is over, but the dancers aren’t finished. Now they want to come up the aisles and pray with you. “This is why we dance,” announces Erin Beaver, one of Ballet Magnificat’s tour directors, speaking into a microphone while she paces the stage at the Jackson Academy’s Performing Arts Center. Beaver, an energetic woman... Continue Reading

If people drive by Erskine College next semester and see students throwing around bananas, they can thank new President David A. Norman. Ultimate Banana — the same thing as Ultimate Frisbee, only with bananas — is a game students from Norman’s previous university invented, something K.D. Norman, his high school sweetheart and wife of 13... Continue Reading

“I think he (newly elected President David Norman) chose the person he wanted without having an interview with me. I don’t feel like that’s a reflection on me.” W. Gid Alston, one of the more outspoken critics of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church’s General Synod’s takeover of Erskine College and Theological Seminary’s board of trustees,... Continue Reading