Mission to the World (MTW) and Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) have found a common purpose in the 2013 PCA Global Missions Conference.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Charles Peterson, 62, of Butler, Pa. passed away at 3:10 a.m. Wednesday at the VNA Inpatient Hospice.

North Park Presbyterian Church was shrinking. Like many churches with an aging population, the congregation in Jackson, Miss., was struggling to fill the pews.

Since July 3, when the Egyptian military removed the Muslim Brotherhood from power, anti-Christian backlash has flared in pockets across Egypt. Though there have been many examples of Christians and Muslims breaking bread together and joining ranks to support moving the government off the Brotherhood’s Islamist path, the crescendo of violence has heightened Christian anxiety.

At least 1,200 people have been killed in the last four years in Northern Nigeria by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, according to a preliminary investigation by the International Criminal Court. The Court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said on Monday (August 5) the ICC is investigating Boko Haram for “crimes against humanity” through “widespread and systematic attacks”, the scale and intensity of which have increased over time.

Amid persistent criticism that the U.S. marginalizes religion and religious people in its foreign policy, Secretary of State John Kerry Wednesday (Aug. 7) tapped ethicist and campaign adviser Shaun Casey to lead the State Department’s new Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives.

Attorney General Marty Jackley has given South Dakota’s support to a legal defense of prayer at government meetings. Jackley said Friday he has joined attorneys general in more than two dozen other states who have signed onto a friend-of-the court brief in the case, which involves prayers that took place in a town board in Greece, N.Y.

Sin, judgment, cross, even Christ have become problematic terms in much contemporary theological discourse, but nothing so irritates and confounds as the idea of divine wrath. Recently, the wrath of God became a point of controversy in the decision of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song to exclude from its new hymnal the much-loved song “In Christ Alone” by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend.

The church was destroyed late Saturday night in a raging blaze that required assistance from fire departments from across Rogers County.

Briarwood Presbyterian Church has voted to sever its 52-year association with the Boy Scouts of America and Troop 254 by the end of the year.