Just days after our nation remembered the historic Roe v. Wade decision, a new book is hot off the (electronic) press. Author Serena Gaefke chose the internet as the best forum to reach her target audience, young, unexpectedly pregnant women. Gaefke’s work is titled, “101 Reasons Not to Have an Abortion: A Girl’s Guide to... Continue Reading

A few days before she boarded a plane and returned to Covenant for her final semester, senior Alex Amicy visited the National Palace of Haiti in Port-au-Prince with her family. They admired the building, taking pictures as they walked around the surrounding parks. Less then a week later, the palace would lie in heap of... Continue Reading

Redeemer University-College, a Canadian Christian liberal arts and science university in the Reformed tradition, hosted a keynote lecture on Friday by Stephen Lewis, former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, who spoke on the topic of global health. Lewis’ invitation by Redeemer…generated a controversy on campus due to Lewis’ history of promoting a liberalized... Continue Reading

A debate dogging the quiet Christian campus of Northwestern College has the president apologizing, some alumni calling for his resignation and everyone doing a lot of praying. A group of students and alumni has accused Northwestern President Alan Cureton of weeding out conservative professors and trustees to help push the campus toward “postmodern” theology. A... Continue Reading

(Editor’s note: Dr. Neilson is the President of Covenant College; the following article is from his blog.) A couple of months ago, my wife and I traveled to watch a Covenant men’s soccer match – a purposeful and delightful journey as our son David was playing defensive midfielder in his senior season on the team.... Continue Reading

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.(Christian Newswire) — Authors of unsolicited manuscripts will no longer see their work returned to them with a “Thanks-but-no-thanks” letter from Christian publishers like Zondervan and Baker Publishing Group. Instead, they will receive a letter or email encouraging them to post their manuscripts, free-of-charge, on authonomy.com/Christian. “authonomy.com allows authors to quickly get valuable... Continue Reading

A team of Geneva College Biology and Chemistry faculty led by Dr. David Essig, professor of biology, has been selected by the Education Department at the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI) to collaborate in The Undergraduate Research Program in Microbial Genome Annotation. Geneva’s team was one of 20 chosen in a national competition,... Continue Reading

Authorities in Haiti now estimate 200,000 people have been killed by last week’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake. That would make the catastrophe one of the deadliest ever. More than 1.5 million people are believed homeless. Many are streaming out of the capital, Port-au-Prince, reports Mission Network News. However, the suffering continues in the city as the... Continue Reading

Jordan Sikkema served as the Volunteer Construction Coordinator for Lagniappe Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Bay St. Louis after Katrina, helping to rebuild 400 homes and coordinate 14,000 volunteers. Now he’s packing up to go give that same kind of help to earthquake victims in Haiti. Sikkema will be in Haiti during the next week with... Continue Reading

According to the estimates, the annual March for Life attracted over 250,000 people yesterday, drawing wide participation in the rally against legalized abortion. This year’s march began with prayer offered by Anglican Priest Martin Mims. “Forgive us for the many ways in which we have failed to respect the sanctity of every human life,” he... Continue Reading