Willow Creek names NAE head, three others to oversee Hybels investigation
Chicago, USRNS Jo Anne Lyon, general superintendent emerita of The Wesleyan Church, and Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, will lead a new investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against Bill Hybels, the retired founding pastor of Willow Creek Community Church. Lyon and Anderson will co-chair the four-person Willow Creek Independent Advisory […]
BOOKS: EXPLORING THE EVIDENCE FOR A ‘MAKER’
DAVID ADAMS reads Melissa Cain Travis’ book on how science and philosophy support the ‘Maker thesis’…
STRANGESIGHTS: @SWEDEN’S ENDING; A ‘STAR WARS’-INSPIRED ROBOT; AND, RABBIT HASH MOURNS A DOG MAYOR…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
Winning design for Phnom Penh factory worker homes, a model for other cities
Thomson Reuters Foundation An award-winning design for factory worker housing in Cambodia’s capital will serve as a model for homes in other cities in the rapidly-urbanising country, according to the charity that will build 3,000 units based on the blueprint next year. The contest was hosted by the United Nations Development Programme as part of […]
Kenyan worship leader one of two killed for failing to say Islamic prayer of faith
World Watch Monitor Two people were killed for failing to recite the Islamic statement of faith when militants, believed to belong to the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, attacked their bus in eastern Kenya on Friday, 14th September. Seven men stopped the bus while it was on its way to Garissa, between the towns of Iljara and Sangailu, and […]
Uncontacted tribes at risk amid ‘worrying’ surge in Amazon deforestation
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation Illegal loggers and militias cleared an area three times the size of Gibraltar in Brazil’s Amazon this year, threatening an “uncontacted” indigenous tribe, activists said on Tuesday. Satellite imagery collected by Instituto Socioambiental, a Brazilian advocacy group, detected about 4,600 acres (1,863 hectares) of deforestation this year in the […]
#METOO: SURVEY SHOWS MORE US PASTORS PREACHING ABOUT ABUSE
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports on the findings of a new survey looking at how a growing number US Protestant pastors are tackling issues of domestic and sexual abuse in their sermons…
Boko Haram kills midwife, threatens to kill other hostages, including Leah Sharibu, unless demands met
World Watch Monitor Boko Haram has killed an aid worker and threatened to kill three other hostages, including the Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu. Saifura Hussaini Ahmed Khorsa, 25, who worked as midwife with the International Committee of the Red Cross, had been abducted on 1st March, alongside two other health workers, when the militants attacked […]
ESSAY: DISCOVERED LETTER EXPOSES ROOT OF RONALD REAGAN’S “CITY ON A HILL PATRIOTISM”
Religion News Service columnist MARK SILK writes about a recent discovery related to the faith of former US President Ronald Reagan…
SAINTS OF PAST AGES: ST COLUMBA
DAVID ADAMS takes a look at the life of St Columba, one of the patron saints of Ireland…