G. Jeffrey MacDonald
Awarded a free campus, Christian college declines
Five weeks after accepting a free, 217-acre campus in western Massachusetts, a for-profit Christian university has walked away from the gift.
...For-profit Christian school is awarded a free campus
A for-profit Christian university in Arizona has won one of the education world’s most sought-after prizes: a free, historic, freshly renovated campus in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts....
Churches shifting summer worship from Sunday to Wednesday nights
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Lifeline to kids: A shift to group mentoring
Experts say mentoring works best one on one. But Lewis Haley found such a need for mentors that he bent the rules.
Churches more wary of partisan politics
With the 2012 election less than six months away, congregations are getting the message that Americans want religion out of politics....
Campus founded by Moody is being given away—to the right buyer
Jerry Pattengale's cell phone won't stop ringing as he leads a
secretive group of college administrators on a tour of a majestic
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Recalling U.S. missionary beginnings
When America's first ordained foreign missionaries sailed from
Massachusetts toward India 200 years ago, they launched a movement to
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Christianity by the numbers
With 2.18 billion adherents, Christianity has become a truly global
religion over the past century as rapid church growth in developing
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Two faiths, one God? Miroslav Volf meets evangelical critics: Miroslav Volf meets evangelical critics
Miroslav Volf believes that Christians and Muslims
worship the same God. On November 3 he took that argument to
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Seminaries look to update ministers’ skill set
For more than 200 years, Andover Newton Theological School has
trained future pastors to have expertise in biblical studies, pastoral
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Circus ministry is a high-wire act of faith for chaplain
WORCESTER, Mass. (RNS) With a stairwell for a confessional and a folding
table for an altar, the lobby of the DCU Center arena doesn't look
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Children feel stress as poverty rates rise
Eleven-year-old Sarai Camacho of Donna, Texas, tears up when she
tells why her mother let the babysitter go for her and her younger
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Rob Bell isn't first megachurch pastor to seek life beyond the pulpit
(RNS) For pastors with ambitions to reach huge audiences, there's often
no better platform than the megachurch, which has given rise to
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