Term – Evangelical — is “increasingly either confusing, or unknown, or misunderstood to students,” says director. (By Kate Shellnut, Christianity Today). More than 80 years ago, the first president of Princeton Evangelical Fellowship aspired for the organization to allow students “to enjoy Christian fellowship one with another, to bear united witness to the faith of its…
(By Michael Gryboski, The Christian Post). A Nebraska school district has canceled two speaking events for a Palestinian Christian activist out of concerns over reported anti-Semitic harassment. Nora Carmi, formerly of the group Kairos Palestine, was scheduled to speak at two high schools in Omaha through the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s Presbyterian Peacemaking Program. However, a school official…
(By Robert Herguth, Chicago Sun-Times). The Rev. Shannon Johnson Kershner, pastor of historic Fourth Presbyterian Church on Chicago’s Mag Mile, a Texas native, says about faith, “I think complacency is deadly . . . I’m always going to be on this journey of discovery.” Kershner, now 45, was hired in 2014 as pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church — one…
These are the days that make people ask, “what’s wrong with the world?” People all around us are seeking hope, healing and meaning. God is setting out divine appointments for each of us. We may not know all the answers or have everything figured out. All we need to do is be faithful. This is…
Your father, your husband, your son, your brother is arrested in a foreign country for a crime he did not commit. Nearly a year passes with no trial but mounting accusations that if he were convicted would result in multiple life sentences. Now consider the country where he is being held is a NATO ally….
(Posted by The Economist). Some evangelical Christians in the United States have stratospheric political connections, and can be sure of gaining access to the White House whenever they want. But Andrew Brunson, a Presbyterian minister from North Carolina who has been imprisoned for nearly a year in Turkey, is not part of that charmed circle. Since…
(By Jen Wilkin, Christianity Today). The headline hit my Facebook feed at the peak of lake season: “Freshwater Shark Caught in Lake Lewisville.” Purportedly, a shocked fisherman landed a shark in the lake adjacent to my town. By the time the local news debunked the story, it had been shared over 100,000 times. It is a classic example…
(Originally posted on EPConnection). On October 7, EPC teaching elder Andrew Brunson will have been imprisoned in Turkey for one year. To mark the date, the denomination is issuing a Call to Prayer and Fasting for the weekend of October 7-8. “We are asking everyone in the EPC to consider fasting and praying for Andrew…
“As people of faith, we write to you out of profound concern over the rise in tensions between the United States and North Korea,” reads the first sentence of the National Council of Churches open letter to President Donald Trump. Despite the fact North Korea has conducted multiple nuclear tests and has launched dozens of missiles,…
(By Walter Fenton, Good News). Uniting Methodists is a new caucus group that has entered as a “new voice” in the battle over the United Methodist Church’s sexual ethics, teachings on marriage, and its ordination standards. It joins a long roster of groups formed by concerned United Methodists over the years to lobby official church bodies like…