Associated Baptist Press brings us news of yet another petition: More than 70 Christian leaders signed a letter Aug. 25 calling on “public officials, faith leaders, and the media to offer no further support or airtime to those who misrepresent and call into question” whether or not President Obama is a Christian. Signers — including [...]

More detail in this post, as well as, why the church visible should not drop this story as long as Rice herself fans the flames of her apostasy and continues her attack upon the Body of Christ.

To be expected in the wacky Word Faith movement, as you’ll see here, the situation concerning TV evangelists pastrix Paula White and Benny Hinn has now taken a twist.

Via Todd Rhodes of the Leadership Network who made Warren: Rick Warren is expected to make a full recovery. http://ht.ly/2f9m4 Belief Blog with more: Megachurch pastor Rick Warren is home recovering after his eyes were burned with sap from a firestick plant in his yard, his spokesman told CNN Thursday. Warren was hospitalized Monday after the [...]

From NewsOK.com …”It’s a time that calls for significant, if not radical, change,” said the Rev. Nick Carter, president of the nation’s oldest seminary, Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Mass. Andover Newton, which has ties to the United Church of Christ and American Baptist Churches USA, and the Unitarian Universalists’ Meadville Lombard Theological [...]

Yesterday CRN told you via a Breitbart report that Robert Schuller was stepping down; now as you’ll see here in an email from Chrystal Cathedral Ministries, this is apparently not the case.

The visible church will be minus a chief heretic as Breitbart is reporting that Robert Schuller is retiring: The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, founder of Southern California’s Crystal Cathedral megachurch and host of the “Hour of Power” televangelism broadcast, announced Sunday he will retire after 55 years in the pulpit and his daughter will take [...]

This report comes from Catholic Online: On Tuesday, Peter Kemmether,  a married 62 year old father of four children was ordained to the Holy Priesthood by Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller.  Fr. Peter was granted a dispensation from the canonical discipline of celibacy attached to priestly ordination. He had been a Protestant Pastor who came into the [...]

The Christian Post is reporting: An orthodox Anglican group has made an “urgent” call for prayer after reports emerged over the weekend that the nominations for the next Bishop of Southwark include an openly gay cleric. Dr. Jeffrey John is believed to be on the list of nominations being considered on Monday and Tuesday by [...]

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According to this report from Assemblies of God News: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday, June 28, that a law school can legally deny recognition to a Christian student group that won’t let homosexuals join. The court turned away an appeal from the Christian Legal Society (CLS), which sued to get funding and recognition [...]

The Christian Post reports on a growing controversy fueled by compromise of the Word of God: The Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken of his desire to see women ordained as bishops in the Church of England in a way that does not “violently disrupt” the common life of the church. In an address to the Methodist [...]

One News Now tells about yet another conference promoting “leadership”: Encouraging men to make a difference in all areas of their lives is one of the primary goals for organizers of a men’s conference set for July. The Gridiron Men’s Conference will feature a number of speakers, including retired college football coach Lou Holtz, author Gary Smalley, [...]

This is from Worthy News: Pope Benedict XVI has urged the creation of a “true world political authority” to “guarantee the protection of the environment” and to manage the global economy, Worthy News learned on Monday, June 21. The pope issued an encyclical on the eve of the G-8 summit entitled, “Charity in truth”. An encyclical [...]

The Christian Post is reporting: After 43 years of living paralyzed from the neck down and recently learning that she now has breast cancer, Joni Eareckson Tada remains all smiles. ”I want to assure you that I am genuinely content to receive from God whatever He deems fit for me even if it is from His [...]

You may recall Claremont School of Theology has ”a new mission statement that included plans for a multi-faith University Project.” Now CST is announcing: The University Senate of The United Methodist Church announced on Friday that it is lifting its sanctions from Claremont School of Theology, reinstating the School’s full affiliation with The United Methodist Church [...]

Fox News brings us this story: They are messengers from God, heavenly beings without material bodies, spiritual envoys carrying out God’s will. They are angels. And according to Lorna Byrne, everyone has one — a guardian angel who’s always with you and will never leave you. She says they are “the gatekeepers of your soul.” [...]

SBCToday reports that Liberty University has completed their investigation, finding, “…that Dr. Caner has made factual statements that are self-contradictory. However, the committee found no evidence to suggest that Dr. Caner was not a Muslim who converted to Christianity as a teenager, but, instead, found discrepancies related to matters such as dates, names and places [...]

From Baptist Message Online: Under the banner of “Greater Things,” speakers during the June 14 afternoon and evening sessions of the 2010 Pastors’ Conference – held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. — focused on the Great Commission and the launch of a national campaign to help pastors adopt children… Daniel Akin, [...]

The Columbus Dispatch is carrying this story: God doesn’t give interviews, but a lot of people say he speaks to us – and he’s pretty ticked. After the 65-foot-tall sculpture of Jesus in Monroe, north of Cincinnati, was struck by lightning and burned to a crisp this week, online chatter settled on a handful of [...]

This comes to us from One News Now: Police in the heavily Arab Detroit suburb of Dearborn say they arrested four Christian missionaries for alleged disorderly conduct at an Arab cultural festival. Police Chief Ron Haddad says his department made the arrests Friday. The four, who are free on bond, insist they only spoke with [...]

São Paulo Agora is reporting: New videos documenting meetings of the dome of the Church Universal show that there has been an international travel award to the seven pastors who garner more tithes of the faithful. The images show the pressure on ministers to increase the collection of resources. São videoconferências comandadas em 2008 pelo [...]

From The Christian Post: A call for prayer was issued this past week for the state of Louisiana, but this time it wasn’t from the Church. The latest call for prayer came from the Louisiana Senate, which unanimously agreed this past week to declare Sunday, June 20, a Statewide Day of Prayer. “All of us are [...]

Baptist Standard is carrying this report: In a surprise move, Southern Baptists said no to two well-known presidential candidates and elected a church planter from Marietta, Ga., to lead them in the coming year. Bryant Wright, senior pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Ga., beat Ted Traylor, pastor of Olive Baptist Church in [...]

The Christian Post says that: Closing arguments in the lawsuit against California’s same-sex marriage ban are being heard Wednesday. Proponents of Proposition 8 say the decision made by California voters in 2008 to uphold traditional marriage should be respected and upheld. “More than 7 million Californians decided that marriage should be preserved, not fundamentally changed,” said [...]