‘They seek spirituality, a higher meaning, and tend to be deep thinkers. The other type of women who turn to Islam are what I call “converts of convenience”. Much of my childhood was spent trying to escape ­Islam…as soon as I was old enough to exert my independence, I rejected the whole package and turned... Continue Reading

A U.S. government body in charge of monitoring religious freedom in the world is urging the Obama administration to demand that Iran release a Christian pastor who is facing possible execution for apostasy. The Obama administration should press Iran to release Youcef Nadarkhani, who has been jailed for over one year, expressed the U.S. Commission... Continue Reading

George Cottenden, Stated Clerk of the OPC General Assembly, put out an email at about noon on Saturday with information about Pastor Knox‘s condition Fathers and Brothers: We have received news that Pastor Dan Knox, of Grace OPC, Sewickley, PA, has had a very serious stroke. At present he is in the ICU of Allegheny... Continue Reading

In its ruling, the PJC praised Spahr while criticizing the denomination’s alleged “conflicting” and “contradictory” rules with regard to marriage. The ruling ordered Spahr to avoid such offenses in the future. The Rev. Jane Spahr, a well-known activist for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) cause in the Presbyterian Church (USA), has appealed the Presbytery... Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: Recently we posted an article by Erik DiVietro on small churches. The article was so well received, we asked Erik to tell us something of how the Intimate Church Project got started. A lot of the thoughts that go into Intimate Church are from my own experience. I am a big reader, and... Continue Reading

Mr. Emery was a president of the Evangelistic Association of New England, and was a life deacon of Park Street Church in Boston. He was also active in the Spanish River Presbyterian Church in Boca Raton. Allan Comstock Emery Jr. was a Christian businessman who knew how to run a company and led his life... Continue Reading

Company President, David Poteet, is a Virginia Tech graduate and serves as a Ruling Elder at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Blacksburg. Poteet started New City as a Web design firm in a spare bedroom 15 years ago. He soon partnered with The Roanoke Times and started developing Web sites for the newspaper’s advertisers. Poteet... Continue Reading

In her new book, Favre talks openly about the struggles in her marriage to Brett that involved his drug and alcohol usage. She also discusses her struggle with breast cancer after she was diagnosed in 2004 “I’m a woman of faith,” Deanna Favre said in her interview on ABC’s Good Morning America. After the NFL... Continue Reading

Of all the religions and philosophies in the world, Christianity is the most interested in people who’ve made mistakes, because it says you can repent and be forgiven and start over again Every conversion story is, at heart, a story about being wrong. Whether they are agonizingly slow or all but instantaneous, whether they happen... Continue Reading

Being a chaplain in the Armed Forces is “just like” being a pastor, according to the Rev. T. Brannon Bowman of Grace Church of the Islands. “There’s never really a time when I can say I’m off-duty,” said Brannon, who joined the Georgia Air National Guard in early 2009 at the militarily advanced age of... Continue Reading