SEATTLE / World Vision — Headlines this year have not been kind to young men — often tagged as selfish Millennials, significantly more likely to still live with mom and dad, less likely than women to be enrolled in U.S. colleges. But, a new holiday giving survey from World Vision shows that men ages 18-34 […]
Read More >By Marion D. Aldridge ASSOCIATED BAPTIST PRESS — Members of pastor search committees often experience buyer’s remorse. Buyer’s remorse is when a person or a family has made a large purchase — a house or a car, for example — and then begin to second-guess their decision. Regret sets in. “Maybe we spent too much…” […]
Read More >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 […]
Read More >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 […]
Read More >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 […]
Read More >PHOENIX — Church Executive magazine is proud to announce the addition of a dedicated risk management/legal blogger: Attorney Robert Erven Brown, Esq.
Read More >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 […]
Read More >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 […]
Read More >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 […]
Read More >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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