The Associated Press yesterday released the following news bulletin: “The Crystal Cathedral megachurch has restored the voting rights of its founder, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, on the church’s governing board.” Following is the news release from the Board. In their meeting on Friday July 22, 2011, the International Board of Directors for the Crystal... Continue Reading

The main reason for my visit, on that August afternoon, was to thank him for a lifetime of ministry. So I shared with him what I called “My Stott Seven,” that is, seven ways in which his ministry touched my life. Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome... Continue Reading

Dan Peek, a founding member of the popular 1970s band America and singer of high harmonies on hits that included “A Horse With No Name” and “Ventura Highway,” has died, his father said Tuesday. He was 60. Mr. Peek’s wife, Catherine, found him dead Sunday in bed in his home in Farmington, Mo., about 60... Continue Reading

The Rev. John Stott, who led an evangelical resurgence in England and influenced Christians worldwide through his writing and preaching, has died in London. He was 90. Benjamin Homan, president of John Stott Ministries, told The Associated Press in a phone interview that Stott died Wednesday afternoon, adding that Stott’s health had deteriorated sharply in... Continue Reading

Dwight D. Eisenhower buried his family’s roots as Jehovah’s Witnesses and presented himself as a Presbyterian when he ran for president in the 1950. (He) was concerned Jehovah’s Witness injunctions against saluting the flag and armed military service would brand the candidate as anti-American… On a recent Sunday, Rep. Michele Bachmann offered a Pentecostal church... Continue Reading

A vicar in Wales has outraged his church authorities by refusing to make an apology a week after he burned pages from the King James Version Bible which he said portrayed God as “cruel and vile.” “The passages I cut out [and later burned] referred to the wrath of God, a God who killed millions... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: Many of our readers have been following the stories about the infant daughter of MTW Missionaries to England Sam and Elizabeth Goodwin who recently died after battling leukemia for many months. This is the final posting from the Caring Bridge website. A little over a week ago, we laid little Simi’s body to... Continue Reading

A town clerk in upstate New York, Laura Fotusky, resigned her position rather than compromise her religious belief that marriage should be between a man and a woman “There was no protection provided in (New York’s) legislation for town clerks unable to sign these marriage licenses due to personal religious convictions,” Fotusky said. “I had... Continue Reading

“What are we to make of the fact that every time we buy a Zondervan product we contribute to Murdoch’s mogul-dom, which includes a personal fortune that Forbes pegged at $6.3 billion last year.” The scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid empire continues to widen, bringing scrutiny to, of all places, western Michigan and the... Continue Reading

The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod is a conservative branch of Lutheranism that has about 390,000 adherents across the country. It has been criticized in part because it holds that the Catholic pope is the Antichrist. The conservative church that Michele Bachmann officially left days before launching her presidential campaign said Friday that the Minnesota congresswoman’s... Continue Reading