(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

SANTA ANA, Calif., /Christian Newswire/ — Two of the most notorious and restrictive regimes in the world top the Open Doors 2010 World Watch List (WWL) of 50 countries which are the worst persecutors of Christians. In the No. 1 spot for the eighth straight time is North Korea, the country where every religious activity... Continue Reading

Highlands Reformed Presbyterian Church is a mission church of the Rocky Mountain Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America in Sidney, Neb. The Rev. Norm Kjellsen, a graduate of New Geneva Seminary in Colorado Springs, is the church planting pastor. Nestled in the panhandle of Nebraska, 20 miles north of the Colorado border and 60... Continue Reading

CHICAGO, /Christian Newswire/ — A federal appeals court on December 30 rebuked the City of Chicago for clout-laden practices against a small Christian church. The three- judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of appeals delivered the decision in favor of the World Outreach Conference Center (WOCC) in its case that claimed Chicago officials violated... Continue Reading

In case you missed any of these, here are the top 10 most read stories from The Aquila Report during 2009: 1. Accident in Bristol 2. Siouxlands Presbytery Exonerates Member 3. Rocky Mountain Presbytery Adopts Pastoral Letter 4. Coral Ridge Faces Difficulties 5. Coral Ridge Search Committee Nominates Tullian Tchividjian 6. Rocky Mountain Resolution on... Continue Reading