PCUSA Judicial Commission approves election of male Elder Candidate in self-affirmed same-sex relationship
“…specifically asked if he was in compliance with G-6.0106b, which requires ordained officers to be faithful in marriage between one man and one woman, or chaste in singleness, ……told the session that he was in compliance…” In a recent decision, the GAPJC affirmed the St. Paul Presbyterian Church (San Angelo, Texas) session’s examination and approval... Continue Reading
United Methodist survey aims to stop membership decline
“Worship is like going to a mall,” Millard said. “There are all kinds of stores. Some people like specialty shops. Some like department stores. When you have variety, people can go where they like.” It’s the conundrum of mainline Protestant denominations with declining memberships and shrinking budgets are desperate to solve: How to stem the... Continue Reading
Fraud in U.S. Churches Takes Heavy Toll on Congregation, Insurers
Church music director Carva White faced the music after launching an unholy plan to burn down his house of worship for an insurance payout. White played hymns for the Sunflower Missionary Baptist Church in Leavenworth, Kan. He recruited the head pastor to help him torch the building, con insurers into paying for repairs, then try... Continue Reading
Responses to Same-Sex Marriage conviction of PCUSA pastor
Below you will find a Letter to the Editor and a local press story about the same event on which we reported last week. Two distinctly different views of the same decision. Letter to the Editor, The Layman Online: PJC rebuke a faint slap on the wrist Noel Anderson Let’s be clear: Jane Spahr won... Continue Reading
Church Growth: Numbers Matter
“…obliviousness to results, deploying pastors without regard to their fruitfulness, pastors shrinking churches…and churches having a grand old time…without inviting, seeking, and saving those outside the church, do not make for faithfulness.” It’s well known that all but a handful of Christian denominations are declining in membership and many have been since the mid-1960s. At... Continue Reading
NC Church seeks a ‘Fresh Start’ for an aging congregation
It’s easy for a church to get in a rut. A pastor may reuse sermons he wrote 20 years ago. Congregation members may reach a level of contentment with their spiritual lives. But slowly, the Rev. J. Randy Hall, pastor of Fairmont Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Lexington, NC believes the community church has faded a... Continue Reading
Future of destroyed Ground Zero Orthodox church in doubt
Buried by falling rubble from the World Trade Center towers after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, all that remained of the tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church were some candles, two icons and a bell clapper. These salvaged artifacts are being kept at the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America while the church’s 70... Continue Reading
Well Known Associate Reformed Presbyterian Ruling Elder being investigated in church theft
Floy Jumper has been a Ruling Elder and Treasurer at the Peachtree Corners Presbyterian Church in Norcross, Georgia for nearly 3 decades. Update Tuesday, March 31. Pastor John Dorr, Jr. of Peachtree Corners ARP has provided the following ‘official’ press release: “We will not be commenting on the specifics of this case. While our congregation... Continue Reading
Discussions of the Doctrine of Scripture, Creation, Theistic Evolution, and Biologos converge to shine light on the writing of a PCA Teaching Elder in New York City
“On Adam as the first human: All we can say at this point is that some 6 mya, a common ancestor to all primates evolved. Our best guess is that full-time bipedal hominids began to walk around 1.8 mya and…language evolved around 170 tya” (Editor’s note: For those readers not familiar with evolution-theory language, mya... Continue Reading
Group calls on Dads – “Fathers as First Teachers on the First Day of School”
A rally will begin at Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church in Suffolk, Virginia at 10 a.m. on Monday, September 6 It has become a societal norm, but an absentee father isn’t something from which a child will ever recover. It takes a toll on every aspect of a child’s life — relationally, academically and spiritually. The... Continue Reading
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