Blue Ridge Presbytery (PCA) to host Q&A Session on BCO Chapter 14 recommended changes for AC Funding Plan
Seeking to provide civil discourse in a safe place, the Presbytery has invited two PCA leaders to make ‘Vote Yes’ and ‘Vote No’ presentations and field questions from members of the Presbytery. During a period of ‘Reports from Commissioners at General Assembly’, a regular docket item in Blue Ridge Presbytery for the July meeting following... Continue Reading
The Future of the Evangelical Reformed Movement
Where some Christians fret over the loss of Christian consensus in America and the growing ranks of the religiously unaffiliated, we see great opportunity About five years ago, something strange happened in the Christian world: Reformed theology made a comeback. Once perceived as the bright but slightly eccentric and often ignored kid in the corner... Continue Reading
Report of Actions of Mississippi Valley Presbytery (PCA) Summer Stated Meeting
Mississippi Valley Presbytery met on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS. The retiring Moderator, TE Scott Phillips, opened the meeting with prayer and the members elected the new Moderator, RE Wayne Morrison of the Second Presbyterian Church of Yazoo City, MS. The Stated Clerk, TE Roger Collins, gave his report... Continue Reading
UCC Makes Pitch to Ex-‘Christian’ Author Anne Rice with “You’d Like the UCC, Anne Rice” Marketing Plan
Many in the (United Church of Christ) can “understand and appreciate her insistence that she must follow a God of love, justice and inclusion.” The United Church of Christ is trying to get Anne Rice to join its flock after the Interview with the Vampire author announced her highly-publicized decision to “quit being Christian” this... Continue Reading
Ugandan Church-goers Asked for ID after World Cup Bombings
In other security measures, all-night prayer rallies and crusades, which are popular with Pentecostal and evangelical churches, will now end at midnight. Ugandan church leaders are asking Christians to produce identity cards and agree to security checks before entering some churches after two terrorist attacks at World Cup viewing parties left more than 70 people... Continue Reading
Episcopal Church Commission Working on Liturgical Rite for same sex couples ceremonies
An official blessing would formalize what has long been an unofficial practice at some dioceses across the country. Armed with a new $400,000 grant and the support of the Episcopal Church, a Berkeley seminary is convening priests from across the country to craft the liturgical rite for same-sex couples to receive religious blessings. The new... Continue Reading
Pension Fight Raises Moral and Legal Concerns for ELCA, Publisher
“The church cannot say, `We need to raise money for people in Haiti,’ when we have 500 people here who will live on the edge of poverty when they retire because they lost their pension…” As the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) fights to stay out of a legal battle over unpaid pension benefits,... Continue Reading
Report by Independent Consultants Reveals Ineffectiveness of Methodist Church Structures
“Our conclusion is that the Church is confronting a ‘creeping crisis’ of both internal and external origin and that the crisis is primarily a crisis of ‘relevancy’ – both internal and external.” As United Methodists in the U.S. continue to count losses in worship attendance and membership, the denomination is re-evaluating its structures and making... Continue Reading
Vicar conducted hundreds of sham marriages where east Europeans were paid to wed Africans needing UK residency
“The Church of England hierarchy allowed him to continue the weddings, which bolstered its ailing finances.” The brides’ outfits were borrowed, the bouquets garage-bought. Happy couples beamed for the camera, then minutes later went their separate ways. It was the same scene, week after week. Little did passersby suspect they were witnessing not the joyful... Continue Reading
Scotland may turn to the Kirk to perform miracles for tourism
“I have often felt that the Church should engage more in the business of tourism.” Scotland’s saints, whose miracles include raising the dead, curing the mad and even saving a queen from execution, could now be asked to perform another miracle – boosting the country’s tourist trade. With visitor numbers in decline as the recession... Continue Reading
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