“We teach people to be respectful, not shove anything down anybody’s throat,” Sorensen says. “We always ask permission. We have real conversations and ask real questions. And in the process, we get to share Jesus with a lot of people.” An estimated 300 million people have heard about Jesus through the Fort Lauderdale-based Evangelism Explosion... Continue Reading

President Obama held a press conference on Feb. 10 to offer a “compromise” under which some religious non-profit organizations would not have pay for morally objectionable drugs, devices, and counseling…The “compromise” however, does not exist in the rules or guidance President Obama issued on Feb. 10, and the administration is not required to formally propose... Continue Reading

Everyone interviewed who was critical of the translation said they believe a small minority of individuals in these mission agencies is pushing these translations in Turkey and other countries, and most missionaries are faithful to the Bible Fikret Bocek says that Turkish quince, a fruit like a pear, takes a long time to grow and... Continue Reading

The last piece of land needed for a multi-year project to build a full-scale Noah’s Ark on an 800-acre site in Williamstown, Ky., has been purchased by a group of developers led by Answers in Genesis, the biblical apologetics ministry announced Wednesday. Despite tough economic times, project leaders are hoping to offset costs by building... Continue Reading

A lawsuit recently filed by the former head of finance for the Trinity Broadcasting Network claims that the directors of the widely-viewed Christian television network have illegally taken advantage of more than $50 million in “charitable assets” for their own good. Brittany B. Koper, granddaughter to TBN founders Paul and Jan Crouch, previously served as... Continue Reading

The trustees of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Friday accepted the resignation of seminary R. Philip Roberts effective Feb. 29 during a called meeting at an airport hotel and named as acting president Robin Hadaway, associate professor of missions at the seminary. Roberts, an 11-year president, was facing questions about misuse of seminary resources and verbal... Continue Reading

Vanderbilt University administrators do not intend to back away from a nondiscrimination policy that prohibits campus religious organizations from requiring leaders to share their beliefs During a meeting held to discuss the policy last week, administrators reiterated the message sent previously by Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos in an email to faculty and students: Membership and leadership... Continue Reading

The discussion between the various groups has been framed in terms of opposite poles, the place of God’s law and God’s grace, legalism and antinomianism. The consultation recognized that the issues in this discussion are as old as church history, with just about every generation of the church wrestling with them, and is now a... Continue Reading

All of us on the faculty of Westminster Seminary California are shocked and saddened by John Frame’s book, The Escondido Theology. Several of us were colleagues with John and several had been his students. We have appreciated particularly over the years his teaching of the apologetics of Cornelius Van Til, his critique of open theism,... Continue Reading

The Obama administration has been accused of telling Catholic military chaplains what they can and cannot say from their pulpits after the Army ordered Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners from their archbishop. The Secretary of the Army feared the letter could be viewed as a call for civil disobedience. The letter... Continue Reading