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Radio Program Examines ‘The World and Everything in It’
By Megan Fowler
The story of how Nick Eicher started WORLD magazine’s daily radio magazine, “The World and Everything in It,” is the story of tumultuous journalistic times, ambitious audience chasing, and patiently waiting for a dream.
TE Grover Gunn Objects to Answers to 2013-20, 21, and 22.
Mission to North America (MNA) and Global Church Advancement will hold their annual Church Planting Conference on Jan. 28-31, 2014.
Padgett Takes Helm at GCP
By Zoe S. Erler
On Oct. 28, Marvin Padgett was selected to serve as the second executive director of Great Commission Publications.
Identical overtures requested the General Assembly to assume original jurisdiction over teaching elder Peter Leithart.
Judge strikes down law that gives clergy members tax-free housing allowances
By Doug Erickson, Wisconsin State Journal
A federal judge has found unconstitutional a law that lets clergy members avoid paying income taxes on compensation that is designated part of a housing allowance.
University of Illinois law professor Pamela Foohey, who tracks church bankruptcies, says more than 500 congregations filed Chapter 11 between 2006 and 2011—and the pace hasn’t slowed since. About 90 congregations filed for bankruptcy in 2012, even as the overall rate of bankruptcy filings declined 13.4 percent.
Calvinism: Mohler, Hankins hold ‘conversation’
By James A. Smith Sr.
In recent years, a debate about Calvinism has generated controversy within the Southern Baptist Convention, with each side of the debate convening conferences, publishing books and issuing theological statements. Mohler holds to Calvinistic soteriology. Hankins was the primary author of “A Statement of Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God’s Plan of Salvation,” issued in 2012 as an alternative to Calvinism.
Is New York City on the Brink of a Great Awakening?
By Joy Allmond
Over the recent decades—particularly this last one—New York has seen a surge in evangelicalism. Some cultural experts believe the Big Apple to be on the brink of another ‘Great Awakening.’
Global persecution outlook for 2014
By Christianity Today
Christianity Today projects the prospects for persecution of Christians worldwide in the coming year.
