In the last week of February, Jonah faced a revolt among his own bishops at a conclave in Santa Fe, N.M. According to an OCA news release, Jonah kept his job but was relieved of several duties and sent on a two-month sabatical during Lent. They appeared at the edge of the crowd on the... Continue Reading

Rest on the Sabbath. Heed Old Testament dietary codes. And be ready for Jesus to return at any moment. If these practices sound quaint or antiquated, think again. They’re hallmarks of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the fastest-growing Christian denomination in North America. Newly released data show Seventh-day Adventism growing by 2.5 percent in North America,... Continue Reading

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Stated Clerk Gradye Parsons has been signing a lot of letters lately. Of course, I’m sure he signs letters all the time—the kind of routine correspondence that any organization puts out. But the letters he’s been so prolific in signing lately are of a different sort. These letters are really political manifestoes,... Continue Reading

But these are different times. If timing is everything then this just may be the time for the kind of radical change The Fellowship is proposing. In 1996 it was a meeting in Chicago and The Presbyterian Coalition emerged to advance Amendment B which then became G-6.0106b. In 1997 the meeting was in Dallas and... Continue Reading

The following motion was approved at the Presbytery Meeting; Whereas the response of the session of Pinecrest Church relative to Dr. Parker Young is inadequate and insufficient, I move that First Presbytery resume jurisdiction in this matter and assign it to an ecclesiastical commission to adjudicate the charges listed against Dr. Young in the report... Continue Reading

Assistant Attorney General Amy Kunstling Irene argued that even though Davidson has historic ties to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the school is independent of church control and doesn’t meet the criteria for a sectarian religious establishment that would create a First Amendment problem by maintaining a police force. A prestigious North Carolina private college was... Continue Reading

At its stated meeting on March 12, Iowa Presbytery approved an overture to the 39th PCA General Assembly to “Give Book of Church Order Chapter 59 The Solemnization of Marriage Full Constitutional Authority.” Teaching Elder James Hakim explained the rational for this overture: The gist of the overture is to acknowledge that God has given... Continue Reading

The vote of Presbyteries on the BCO 14 amendments as of March12 is On BCO 14-1: 40-33 against adoption On BCO 14-2: 42-31 against adoption. A majority of Presbyteries have now voted against adopting both BCO 14-1 and 14-2. For the amendments to be have been approved 2/3 of the 79 Presbyteries (53) had to... Continue Reading

“On behalf of the fifty million members of our (National Council of) churches, I declare as loudly as possible that whenever Muslims are threatened or demeaned, so are we—because ‘Today we are Muslims, too!’” Accepting an invite from Ground Zero Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, National Council of Churches chief Michael Kinnamon joined other leftist clergy... Continue Reading

The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (USA) reviewed investments, assessed risk, made strategic financial management decisions and agreed that although returns in 2010 were very good, a 2011 experience apportionment will not be granted, at its March 3-5 meeting held at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia. Dues increase for medical plan expected The... Continue Reading