“Joni has been a friend for 25 years through our shared work with the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization,” said Belhaven University President Roger Parrott. “She has always had a deep connection with the University. I couldn’t be more thrilled that she will be on campus for this special evening. Joni is a one-of-a- kind... Continue Reading

The no-confidence vote by the faculty holds no sway over the president’s employment and cannot force the school’s board of trustees to take action. Voting members, however, said that as long as Jordan remains president, they will continue efforts to have him removed.   A day after nearly two-thirds of King University’s faculty members voted... Continue Reading

“At the meeting after the chapel, the students explained that their demonstration was meant to express concern that Dr. Butterfield’s story would be interpreted by the community as prescriptive rather than descriptive,” Ash said. “They expressed the desire for other stories to be told among the community in order to represent more than one person’s... Continue Reading

When a church counsels, it is saying more than the Bible is true; it is saying that the God of the Bible is real. He comes to change lives, families, communities, cultures and the entire cosmos. You can actually see those changes! When a church counsels, it is engaging in one of the most important... Continue Reading

Part of the reason is that Scotland sees its remaining Calvinist bodies through magnifying-glasses.  We cannot shake off our fascination with the Free Church and the Free Presbyterian Church.  They are part-bogeymen, part scarecrow, part dinosaur and part Super Ego.  Between them they receive as much media coverage as the Church of England, yet the... Continue Reading

I have to confess that a significant minority of the new songs I come across each year on various websites, events and albums fail to do any of the above. They are little more than a re-ordering of stock phrases in circulation among existing songs, just married to a new tune. It feels to me... Continue Reading

While affirming the place of the gospel as the boundary of fellowship, we want to insist that the whole counsel of God is the center of fellowship, and that pursuit of this center is of irreplaceably great value for worship, fellowship, and devotion. Further, this center is not merely doctrinal: the center of Christianity includes... Continue Reading

When a church commits to counsel people, they are saying that they are willing to get down in the trenches of daily life and love people with the redemptive compassion of the Incarnate One. They are saying that good preaching, as important as it is, is just the beginning of ministry of the Word not... Continue Reading

Be a learner not a knower. Be a server not a master. Be a listener not a speaker. Go with only the expectations that you are open to God’s plan and you want to be used in any way he wants to use you. Go with the heart that you have been sent by God.... Continue Reading

Benjamin Johnson, whom Bishop Cummins sent to South Carolina to receive the African-American Episcopal churches and people, wrote, “It is enough for us to know that we have accepted the Divine policy. In its true Catholicity our Church is no ‘respecter of persons’; Barbarians, Scythians, bond and free, have their rights of the Church and... Continue Reading