Saudi Arabia’s security forces freed two German Christian girls kidnapped nearly a year ago in neighboring Yemen but the fate of their abducted parents, their infant brother and a British engineer remained unknown, officials and Christians said Tuesday, May 18 in Riyad. Anna Hentschel, 3, and Lydia Hentschel, 5, were reportedly rescued in an operation... Continue Reading

Child kidnapping charges were dropped against all 10, but Silsby remained in jail facing an ill-defined charge of “irregular travel.” Baptist volunteer Laura Silsby has been released by Haitian authorities after a court conviction May 17. According to the Associated Press, Silsby was convicted May 17 of arranging to transport 33 children out of Haiti... Continue Reading

“We’ve suddenly discovered thousands of ministers and church leaders around the world who are very interested in him.” Jonathan Edwards has gone global. The maverick philosopher-theologian, who went on from Yale to become one of the nation’s leading religious thinkers, is in the midst of an international resurgence in popularity — more than 250 years... Continue Reading

“If an experienced pastor had 10 minutes to exhort 200 of the next generation of ministers what would you say to them? That was the charge for R. Albert Mohler Jr., Mark Dever, Ligon Duncan and C.J. Mahaney” (Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of four responses to this question.) Ministers need... Continue Reading

The White House forced a CBS news blogger to retract his assertion that Kagan would be the first “openly gay judge,” whose female partner “is rather well known in Harvard circles.” A nearly perfect divide has split U.S. voters over Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s eligibility as the next Supreme Court Justice, according to a Rasmussen... Continue Reading

He appears regularly on the BBC’s “World Have Your Say” and since 1996 has served as a commentator on religion and politics for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Joseph Loconte, the prolific writer, speaker, and scholar, will become a full time professor this fall at The King’s College—New York City. He will teach a... Continue Reading

Aides expect the President to select his current appointee as Solicitor General of the United States, Elena Kagan, as the newest Supreme Court justice Top White House aides, speaking to Mike Allen of Politico Magazine, revealed that the President Obama intends to announce (probably on Monday) his pick for the Supreme Court to replace retiring... Continue Reading

Americans tend to be……more open to individual leaders and their books. “A mixture of populism, individualism, democratization, and market-making has recently been defined as the essence of the American way” Jim Belcher announced on Sunday May 2 that he has decided to leave the church he planted, Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Newport Beach, California,... Continue Reading

Dr. Copeland will travel to Israel at the beginning of June for an intensive course in terrorism studies, and in particular, how democracies can defeat the worldwide terrorist threat. The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), a non-partisan policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C., announces that Dr. Tom Copeland, a professor of political science... Continue Reading

Of much more concern to any faithful ARP minister or elder must be what happens in the courts of the Lord’s Church. And what word can we use for what has happened but “scandal?” Dear Chuck, As men like to say in the South, you and I have “knocked heads” at times over tactical issues... Continue Reading