Jin S. Kim, Pastor of Church of All Nations, Minneapolis; Presbytery – Twin Cities Area The Layman is asking each candidate to identify the top five issues at the upcoming General Assembly, and share your position on each. (Answers are printed exactly as received – each candidate had a 500-word limit) Becoming a Missional Church... Continue Reading

Eric Nielson, Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Presbytery – Northern Waters. The Layman is asking each candidate to identify the top five issues at the upcoming General Assembly, and share your position on each. (Answers are printed exactly as received – each candidate had a 500-word limit) The most significant issue coming to... Continue Reading

Cynthia Bolbach, Elder at First Presbyterian, Arlington, Va.; Presbytery: National Capitol The Layman is asking each candidate to identify the top five issues at the upcoming General Assembly, and share your position on each. (Answers are printed exactly as received – each candidate had a 500-word limit) There are two issues that are central to... Continue Reading

Check out the various sections, including Opinion and Assembly/Synods for new stories. We don’t have enough room on the front page for everything (and we are not complaining). We have 8 stories that were posted to start on Wednesday that did not make the Front Page – most, but not all, in the Opinion Section... Continue Reading

A basement theater in Long Island City is an unlikely place to see a miracle. But the Lord — and Off Off Broadway — works in mysterious ways. At the Chocolate Factory, one of the most vital arts organizations in Queens, Jimmy Swaggart has returned to life. That Southern evangelist is technically still alive, but... Continue Reading

I see three main differences in the two expositions. From the first to the third, the differences grow stronger because the implications build on top of themselves SECTION ONE: Hodge on verse 2. If then, asks the apostle, such a destiny as this awaits you, are ye unfit to decide the smallest matters? If the... Continue Reading

This is the document in circulation among Members of the Board of Trustees of Erskine College that is referred to in the story entitled: Massive changes to governance of Erskine College/Seminary being discussed 1. College and Seminary have separate Boards of Trustees. The Moderator of General Synod would be an ex-officio voting member of both... Continue Reading

ON GOING TO LAW BEFORE THE HEATHEN. VS. 1-11. · Paul expresses surprise that any Christian should prosecute a fellow Christian before a heathen judge, v. 1. · If Christians are destined to judge the world, and even angels, they may surely settle among themselves their worldly affairs, vs. 2, 3. · If they had... Continue Reading

In 1 Corinthians 6 we read of the lamentable matter of fellow believers calling one another before the magistrate over unspecified “grievances”.1 For reasons we can only suppose,2 the church members preferred the civil courts over ecclesiastical regulation. Paul’s distress over the Corinthians’ serial litigiousness, their inability to adjudicate and the chosen civil venue is... Continue Reading

Authors: Chaplain (Col) Charles D. Camp, USArmy (Ret.); Captain John F. Gundlach, Chaplain Corps, USNavy (Ret); Chaplain (Col) Jerry Rhyne, USAir Force (Ret.) Forty-one retired chaplains recently wrote the president and Secretary of Defense, imploring them not to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” statute. We find their core argument astonishing; i.e., any new law... Continue Reading