“We are delighted that God has called John to join us in a powerful and unique calling: to help leaders build gospel movements in global cities,” said Timothy Keller, CTC’s chairman of the board.

Mississippi Valley Presbytery teaching elder Lt. Col. Donald Malin has been selected as the Mississippi National Guard state chaplain, the highest chaplain appointment in the state. Malin has served in the military for 30 years, 21 of which he spent as a chaplain with the Mississippi Army National Guard. He has completed tours of duty…

Mission to the World and the community of Holy Trinity Reformed Church celebrated the dedication of a new church building in Kherson, Ukraine.

Dr. Derek Thomas, previously a faculty member of the Jackson campus of Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS) and most recently the distinguished visiting professor for RTS, has now been appointed to become a regular faculty member at RTS/Atlanta, while continuing his role as the minister of preaching and teaching at First Presbyterian Church of Columbia, SC….

This July, Mission to North America (MNA) will host two Church Planter Training conferences — one on each coast. The West Coast conference will take place July 10-12 in San Diego; the East Coast conference will be held in Philadelphia July 24-26. The Church Planter Training Conference provides the training and tools to start, grow,…

Covenant grad hopes to investigate key factors surrounding HIV infection among South African youth

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.