With a 90 percent success rate, multisites have become one of the more popular strategies for church growth in the last decade, a new survey reveals. more >>
“Urban church planting” and “raising up non-clergy church planters” were the specific topics of the peer-learning event organized by Ed Stetzer, director of LifeWay Research. more >>
Nearly 80 percent of churchgoers surveyed by Christianity Today International (CTI) said they believe sex offenders belong in the church under appropriate supervision. more >>
A California minister was rebuked on Friday by a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) court for performing same-sex ceremonies. Notably, the guilty verdict came with a page of praise in the 2 1/2-page ruling. more >>
Texas megachurch pastor Kerry Shook admits he might be addicted to Twitter. But he and thousands of others around the country gave that up for 24 hours as part of a national fast. more >>
A Florida megachurch has axed its traditional and contemporary Sunday worship services, refusing to continue down the wide path of segregated worship. more >>
Anglican bishops from more than 400 dioceses in Africa have convened for the 2nd All Africa Bishops Conference and were encouraged by the potential their church body has to impact the continent and the rest of the world. more >>
A retired Presbyterian minister is facing trial Tuesday morning for performing same-sex ceremonies in California. This is the second time the Rev. Jane Adams Spahr, a lesbian activist, has gone to court over violation of church law. more >>
More than one million people so far have been invited to attend a church service on Sunday, Sept. 12, as a result of this year’s national “Back to Church Sunday” campaign, and more than 3,000 churches have signed on. more >>
Members of Capt. Dale Goetz’s church back in Colorado Springs are mourning the loss of the U.S. Army chaplain following his death earlier this week. more >>
Christians across America are being called on to unite in prayer and fasting for the nation from Sept. 20 to Oct. 30 as America faces “unprecedented challenges.” more >>
Not many prominent conservative evangelicals have weighed in on the controversial effort to establish a mosque and Islamic cultural center near New York City’s Ground Zero, and even fewer have voiced support for the project. more >>
A divided Illinois Supreme Court denied a request to transfer the legal case pending against the state’s Parental Notice of Abortion Act from the Appellate Court to the Supreme Court. more >>
The sometimes hateful rhetoric being used by opponents of the proposed mosque can result in violence against Christians living in Muslim-dominated countries, warned a ministry leader. more >>
The Christian Medical Association blasted the Obama administration Tuesday for trying to lift an injunction blocking the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. more >>
An openly gay state senator is urging Schwarzenegger to veto a bill seeks to define the union between a man and a woman as a “civil marriage” rather than a marriage. more >>
A district court judge in Michigan declined to dismiss a case against four street preachers who were arrested back in June after engaging in conversations with attendees of a large Arab festival. more >>
Rather than move the mosque further away from the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City, the chairwoman of the city's community board has suggested adding an interfaith component to help heal the divide. more >>
Southern California megachurch pastor Phil Hotsenpiller will be hosting a three-day seminar over the Labor Day weekend to discuss theological perspectives of current events and their relation to the “last days.” more >>
A school district in New York has decided to eliminate a policy that prohibited students from wearing rosary beads following a months-long battle with a Christian legal group. more >>
A middle school principal who sought to avoid controversy over the formation of a Christian club on campus created some when he sent a "candid" e-mail to his staff. more >>
Gordon College President Dr. R. Judson Carlberg has announced his intention to retire on June 30, 2011, after 35 years of service at the multidenominational school in Wenham, Mass. more >>
In the days following the highly publicized Glenn Beck rally, conservative Christians have come out expressing their concern not over Beck himself, but over the apparent confusion among Christ followers. more >>
A theological college known widely for its research and resources has been awarded a one million dollar gift from an Islamic think tank to help endow a professorship in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations. more >>
After having stonewalled public requests for months, the Obama administration relented this past week in releasing a taxpayer-supported study on the attitudes and opinions of adolescents and their parents regarding sex, abstinence, and abstinence messages. more >>
The Catholic-raised evangelical wants to raise a generation of Christians who can defend their faith while simultaneously being embedded in the mainstream world. more >>
LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas, has received a five million-dollar gift to establish an endowed scholarship fund for home-schooled students. more >>
A Christian liberal arts college that has been supported by Campus Crusade for Christ for over a decade has named renowned apologist Dinesh D’Souza as its new president, according to an announcement Monday. more >>
Theological conservatives and liberals alike this week mourned the loss of influential and controversial theologian Dr. Clark H. Pinnock, who died this past Sunday from a heart attack. more >>
