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Inviting young adults to be leaders

By Michael J. O’Loughlin RELIGION NEWS SERVICE — Over at Duke Divinity School’s Faith & Leadership, I write about the need to include young adults in positions of leadership in faith communities. From the essay: Nowhere is the church’s “maturity” more evident than in communities of women religious, the Catholic nuns who are responsible for […]

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Faculty Opening for Professor of Counseling at RTS/Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 5, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ — Dr. Michael Kruger, president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC, is pleased to announce a faculty opening for a professor of counseling. In addition to teaching counseling classes, this individual will be the director for new counseling degree programs at RTS Charlotte.  These programs would include […]

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Does your pastor need a doctorate?

By Mark Wingfield ASSOCIATED BAPTIST PRESS — Churches should value the importance of an educated clergy, but church leadership also should be educated about what the various degrees represent and the value of experience blended with education. Hearing a story about yet another medium-sized church in a small town where a personnel committee desired above […]

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Church Executive announces risk management/legal blogger

PHOENIX — Church Executive magazine is proud to announce the addition of a dedicated risk management/legal blogger: Attorney Robert Erven Brown, Esq.

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Supreme Court to consider religious prayer at government meetings

WASHINGTON (RNS) — In a case that could determine restrictions on expressions of faith in the public square, the Supreme Court on Wednesday (Nov. 6) will consider religious prayers that convene government meetings. At issue in Greece v. Galloway is whether such invocations pass constitutional muster, even when government officials are not purposefully proselytizing or […]

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Repaired Capitol Hill Ten Commandments Monument to be Re-dedicated

WASHINGTON/Christian Newswire/ — On Tuesday, October 29, religious, civic and political leaders will re-dedicate a monument of the Ten Commandments on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, that had been toppled by vandals last month. The 30-minute ceremony begins at 11 a.m. EST and will be held at the location of the monument which stands in […]

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Regent Gets Up Close and Personal with Duck Dynasty

By Amanda Morad Few television shows are currently considered more reflective of Southern American culture than A&E’s Duck Dynasty, a reality show about a close-knit Christian family in Louisiana running a successful duck call business. On Monday, Oct. 21, Regent University got a little taste of the bayou when Alan Robertson spoke at a special […]

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National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference Joins Others from Church, Academia at Cedarville University

National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference logo. (PRNewsFoto/The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference)   CEDARVILLE, Ohio/PRNewswire/ — The fourth-annual National Education Summit was held Oct. 16 on the campus of Cedarville University, co-hosted by the school and The Alliance for Hispanic Education, a directive of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC). The nearly 100 academic […]

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Christian Teens Abandon Faith Because of Youth Groups, Not Despite Them

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. 22, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ — A new study might reveal why a majority of Christian teens abandon their faith upon high school graduation.  Some time ago Christian pollster George Barna documented that 61% of today’s twenty-somethings, who had been churched at one point during their teen years, are now spiritually disengaged.  […]

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Church Executive blogger takes the reins as NACBA chapter president in Sacramento

Mike Klockenbrink’s The staff at Church Executive congratulates blogger Mike Klockenbrink, Operations Officer at Lakeside Church in Folsom, CA, on his appointment as president of the Sacramento chapter  of the National Association for Church Business Administration (NACBA). Klockenbrink has been a member of the NACBA — and its Sacramento chapter — since 2000. Among his […]

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