In the US, Patterson won’t address annual meeting as Southern Baptists gather amid scandals
RNS With Southern Baptists already comparing the state of their denomination to a natural disaster, another dramatic turn has come in the sexual abuse and misconduct scandal swirling around Paige Patterson, a revered institutional leader. Patterson, fired recently from his post at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, announced Friday that he won’t […]
Burkina Faso pastor and his family released after four days
World Watch Monitor A Christian pastor who was abducted on Sunday with his family in Burkina Faso’s north-eastern province of Soum has been released. Local sources told national broadcaster Omega Radio that Pastor Pierre Boena, his son David and his daughter-in-law, Ami Sawadogo were released on 7th June. A church in Burkina Faso in 2009. The recent […]
ESSAY: IN THE US, FEWER COUPLES ARE MARRYING IN CHURCHES. DOES IT MATTER?
Writing from the US, commentator JACOB LUPFER argues that religious marriages offer something civil marriages don’t…