Compensation for full-time Southern Baptist pastors is rising slightly faster than inflation, but the mounting cost of benefits is forcing churches to provide fewer pastors with medical insurance. These and other findings are part of the SBC Church Compensation Study, a survey of 11,674 staff positions in Southern Baptist churches. LifeWay Research conducted the survey... Continue Reading

“The Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, another old, historic downtown church has most graciously offered their facilities for us,” Robertson says. Members of Georgia’s oldest Episcopal church are making one more appeal in their long-running fight to hang on to a church they believe is theirs. Savannah’s 277 year-old Christ Church broke off from its... Continue Reading

Caring for old church facilities is an increasingly acute problem, particularly for mainline Protestant denominations. About halfway through Sunday service at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, as worshipers passed around the collection plate, a chorus of screams pierced the air. Chunks of the ceiling in the 52-year-old church near Hickory came crashing down on the crowd... Continue Reading

“Being a Calvinist in the SBC” – September 23 – 25, 2010 – Mansfield, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth area) What is the Southern Baptist Founders Conference? The purpose of the conference is to glorify God, honor His gospel, and strengthen His churches by providing encouragement to Southern Baptists in historical, Biblical, theological, practical, and ecumenical studies.... Continue Reading

In what can only be seen as a clear repudiation of liberalism and Western pan-Anglican revisionism, more resignations from the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion (SCAC) were announced this week. These resignations resulted in further humiliation and embarrassment for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. The committee is made up of 15 members elected... Continue Reading

“It is a well-known plot that an administrative commission has been employed to take the ownership and control of the local church property under the auspices of ecclesiastical authority,” says the complaint An administrative commission for the Synod of Lincoln Trails is exceeding its authority by acting as the synod, the presbytery and the local... Continue Reading

Dr. Jeffrey J. Jeremiah, stated clerk of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, welcomed the news that the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) had voted to stop accusing the EPC of stealing the PCUSA’s sheep. Those charges first began with former Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick, who denounced the EPC because PCUSA congregations left the mainline... Continue Reading

A historic church building that in recent years has hosted fundraisers and special events for local nonprofits will soon become a house of worship once again. The Old Town Event Center, at 403 S. Loudoun Street in Winchester, Virginia was recently sold to Eagle Heights Presbyterian Church for $780,000… The building will become the first... Continue Reading

All is not well at Erskine College and Seminary, but things can be made well. These were two of the three points new Erskine President David Norman made to a group of at least 100 people Sunday morning at the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia. As part of the church’s Thornwell Lecture series, it was... Continue Reading

“The ordination of women to the presbyterate remains a matter that divides us. Despite the deep theological and ecclesiological divide we have remained committed to each other, and have honored each other as our Constitution envisions” The Anglican Church in North America is dividing up the continent (US and Canada) in a bold attempt to... Continue Reading