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Covenant grad hopes to investigate key factors surrounding HIV infection among South African youth
A Small College Fights a Big Federal Rule
By Joshua Carback
While many Catholic organizations are suing Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius over the Obama administration’s new contraception rules, unhappiness with the supposed HHS mandate “compromise” runs even deeper. Many Protestant institutions are also trying to overturn the compromise that coerces private religious institutions to fund health insurers who can provide beneficiaries…
Last night the General Assembly rejected the Overtures Committee’s recommendation to answer Overture 30 (regarding intinction) in the negative. The overture called for the addition of this sentence to Book of Church Order (BCO) 58-5: “Intinction [dipping the bread or wafer into the wine], because it conflates Jesus’ two sacramental actions, is not an appropriate…
Scripture and the Westminster Standards are sufficiently clear that Adam and Eve are real, historical human beings directly created by God.
Commissioners noted that such an exception is routinely granted. Others argue for denomination-wide consistency.
RUF Defends Its Vanderbilt Position
By RUF Senior Staff
The mounting dissension between Vanderbilt University and campus ministries has prompted us to make clear the posture RUF has taken.
Yesterday, the General Assembly upheld the Interchurch Relations Committee (IRC) and voted to maintain the PCA’s membership in the National Association of Evangelicals. For further details on the overture and the debate surrounding it, please visit this earlier story.
Yesterday, the General Assembly upheld the Overtures Committee (OC) on motions dealing with changes to the Rules of Assembly Operation — specifically to answer Overture 9 in the negative, to answer Overture 3 in the affirmative, and to answer Overtures 6 and 27 with reference to its answer to 3. The latter vote affirms that…
Proposed change directs the clerk to refer overtures with Constitutional repercussions to the OC.
The Overtures Committee (OC) voted 61-20 to refer Overture 31 back to Westminster Presbytery.
