Bucking the Trend, Erskine Seminary Takes Steps to Split from College
While financial woes prompt many seminaries to consolidate, Erskine’s are causing it to step away
“The move is symbolic, since for now the two entities share one pool of money. But it’s an important message to the college, especially after its clashes in recent years with the denomination.” At a time when many seminaries are merging with other seminaries or related colleges for financial reasons, Erskine Seminary in South... Continue Reading
Christian Colleges, Religious Liberty, and SB 1146 in California
SB 1146 prohibits private/religious colleges and universities in California from “discriminating” against LGBT students, faculty, or staff members, even if LGBT lifestyles run contrary to that institution’s religious beliefs.
Assuming that SB 1146 passes and is signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, California’s religious colleges and universities will be put to the test. They will have to decide whether to refuse to comply and litigate the issue, forgo benefits from significant state funding, acquiesce and modify their non-discrimination policies, close down, or move... Continue Reading
Ontario Court Deals Blow To Christian Law School’s Accreditation Because of Its Marriage Views
The Ontario Court of Appeal has rejected Trinity Western University law school’s bid for recognition in the province because it requires students to abstain from sexual activity outside of marriage.
In April 2014 the Law Society of Upper Canada announced it would not accept graduates of TWU’s proposed program, because it deemed discriminatory the school’s community covenant that requires students to abstain from sexual activity outside marriage between a man and a woman. After TWU appealed the decision, last year a three-judge panel ruled against... Continue Reading
Life-Size Noah’s Ark To Open Amid A Flood Of Skepticism
A replica of Noah's Ark has been built in the rolling hills of northern Kentucky and it is, quite literally, of biblical proportions at 510 feet long.
It cost $100 million to build and is expected to draw up to 2 million visitors a year along with millions in tourism revenue, according to what the ministry calls an independent study. Looey says they’ve already hired over 300 staff and hundreds more jobs are on the way when the other phases — including... Continue Reading
The Blessing of Being Counseled By Someone You Know
Counseling in the context of a personal relationship brings a number of practical benefits that you won’t get from a stranger.
Therapeutic counseling is based on a patient-therapist model that requires “professionalism” and “boundaries.” But biblical counseling is based on a model of interpersonal gospel care. The biblical model of ministry does not rely on professionals or experts. Instead, it is carried out by brothers and sisters in Christ, fellow strugglers who love someone enough to... Continue Reading
Stop Calling It A “Short Term Missions Trip”. Here’s What You Should Call It Instead.
Our vocation, whether in butchering, baking or candlestick-making - is the primary means we have been given to serve God.
Learning Exchanges – a time when our theology and understanding of the world is rocked to the core and deconstructed. When we travel as learners, eager to have our minds expanded and preconceptions challenged, we will not be disappointed. This category includes those who travel as part of their vocation – as a builder, surgeon... Continue Reading
The Culture War And Missions
One of the dangers for Christians is making the gospel secondary to the culture.
Eat the food, wear the clothes, live among the people. Travel as they travel and experience what they experience. Live the daily life of the people to whom you have been sent to minister. Rejoice in their victories and shed tears for their pain. But missionaries are not anthropologists, they are warriors. A Christian is... Continue Reading
Nation’s Radicalized Christians Praying For Orlando
In the aftermath the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, cells of radicalized Christians around the nation have risen up to pray for everyone affected and offer further assistance.
Sources confirmed that some of the nation’s most militant Christians are even praying for the shooter’s family and others caught up in, or affected by, the recent surge of violent Islamic ideology, pointing to Jesus’s radical teaching on “praying for our enemies” as their primary motivation. Experts fear that an increase in terror attacks like... Continue Reading
Who Really Helps the Needy? Pew Study Shows Us, and So Does the Orlando Sentinel
Religious people donate and volunteer more than their nonreligious neighbors
“Echoing a new Pew Research Center study that found religious people are more apt to volunteer and make charitable donations than others, the Rescue Mission and other Central Florida charities say the faith community provides critical support in providing food, shelter and clothing for the needy.” Religious people donate and volunteer more than their... Continue Reading
A Farmer-Missionary Keeps His Hand To The Plow In Siberia
In Russia, missionary Justus Walker is dubbed “The Merry Milkman,” an apt nickname for the bearded dairy farmer with an exuberant laugh.
Walker’s Russian adventure began at age 11. In 1994, heeding God’s call to missions, his parents sold their Idaho home, packed up their four kids and moved them across the globe to Siberia. They planned to serve for a few years before returning to life in Idaho. Early on, Walker decided he’d study computer engineering... Continue Reading
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