The hosting company found itself sucked into the controversy over a Florida church’s planned burning of Qurans. Afghans protest, Fla. pastor plans to meet NY imam
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S.A.’s Rackspace pulls church’s website
The Church Times reports that the the “Primtes’ document” at the close of the All Africa Bishops Conference of CAPA , was “agreed upon by the primates and the representatives of primates who were not able to attend.” It turns out that that is not true.
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Was CAPA a pawn, or just a wee bit over the top?
I had the privilege of attending the Keswick Convention for the first time this year. I had a little role in the young adults stream – K2. But I also got to enjoy the Bible readings and evening celebrations, as well as a couple of afternoon sessions. I have to say, I have become a fan of Keswick (good preaching, decent music, no pre-registration, great town, perfect weather . .
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Keswick Reflections
Morgantown, WV Contact Information Tim Cole, VEF’s Director of Church Planting (804) 690-7919 Tim@VEF.cc Position Description Church Planter needed for Morgantown, WV. The Virginia Evangelizing Fellowship (VEF) is accepting resumes for a CHURCH PLANTER to lead the development of a new church in Morgantown, West Virginia.
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Virginia Evangelizing Fellowship (VEF) Morgantown, WV Miscellaneous/ Full Time
When I have time, I browse the Newseum’s front-page images from major newspapers across the nation. It’s interesting to see how different papers play various stories, and from time to time, I run across stories that make perfect GetReligion fodder
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The couple that pastors together
Paul Harvey Earlier we posted an announcement on the conference “Divided by Faith,” a symposium at Indiana Wesleyan University about Michael Emerson’s and Christian Smith’s book of that titl e. Below is the conference schedule; as you will see, blog contributors Philip Luke Sinitiere and Edward J. Blum, and friend of the blog Charles Irons, are among the participants.
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Divided by Faith: Conference Schedule
Anyone who has lived in Texas knows that there are times when it seems that there are more Baptists inside the Lone Star state then there are people. When it comes to politics, separation of Baptists and state remains a vital issue.
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Got news? Baptist cuts in Texas
Our friends Dennis and Vania Aggrey from Liberia, West Africa, are featured in this award-winning documentary by Dispatches from the Front .
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Dennis Aggrey: Dispatches from the Front
This weekend, President Obama gave a First Amendment defense of the proposed mosque near Ground Zero. The next day he made a point of noting that he wasn’t addressing the “wisdom” of building a mosque at the site
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Are 70% of Americans anti-Islam?
I enjoyed a passing point made by Derek Tidball recently at Keswick. Here’s the text: “Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart.” (2Cor.4:1) Derek pointed out that we live in a culture saturated by meritocratic thinking. You have to have a certificate to be able to everything. The same is often true in church world. People expect you to be able to do this and do that like the best of names. The pressure is on if you are involved in ministry, and the pressure is to live up to the standards of expectation imposed by the church. All too easily we can fall into the trap of thinking that we are in ministry because of our merit – our education, our training, our skills, our abilities, etc. But when we realize that we are in ministry through God’s mercy, that changes everything. Suddenly ministry becomes about response. It becomes about our wonder at His mercy toward us. It becomes a real sense of privilege, rather than pure pressure and evangelical purgatory (as some church situations can feel for some in so-called “service”).
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Why Do You Preach – Part 2