Bishop of Stockport Libby Lane with Archbishop of Canturbery Justin Welby (Phil noble, Reuters) The Church of England consecrated its first woman bishop on Monday, the culmination of years of efforts...

During his January 17, 2015 sermon entitled “Why I Believe in the 1,000 Man March After Ferguson,” Pastor Dwight K. Nelson, senior pastor at Pioneer Memorial Church, called for an end to ethnicall...

Christianity Today published an article called "The Season of Adventists: Can Ben Carson's Church Stay Separatist Amid Booming Growth?" by Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra in its January/February edition about t...

Across American Christianity, compromise on sexuality is crumbling at the foundation of holiness. (Flickr/Nathan Bush [edited]) Editor's Note: 2014 was a big year in the church—and in the world. Thi...

These religious discriminators get the Scrooge awards. (YouTube/Screengrab) Ebenezer Scrooge may have been a work of fiction in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but his cold-hearted ways are very m...

December 29, 2014 - Every December, Barna Group compiles its top findings and trends from research conducted in the past year. From legalizing marijuana to increasing secularization trends to America�...

Wedding cake (Lyudmilla Ivanova/Flickr) After seeing Christian-owned bakeries pay a severe price for refusing gay wedding customers, Theodore Shoebat decided to see how tolerant gay-owned bakeries rea...

The issue of gay clergy is splitting another church. (File) The Church of Scotland has taken a significant step towards ordaining practicing homosexual ministers, after a majority vote by local bodies...

David Kyle Foster (Facebook) In a recent conference on homosexuality put on by the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission in Nashville, I was shocked and deeply saddened at the abs...

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby (File) The Church of England appointed its first female bishop on Wednesday, overturning centuries of tradition in a Church that has been deeply divided over the...

Nicole Maines, flanked by an attorney, prevailed in a long-running gender-identity lawsuit against his school district. (Facebook) A court in Maine has ordered the Orono School District to pay $75,000...

Dr. Ben Carson feels the circumstances of the soul of our nation may force him into a run for the Presidency. (Facebook) Respected neurosurgeon and conservative activist Dr. Ben Carson is heavily weig...

Should we expect the gospel to be popular with the world? (CharismaNews archives) For the last several years, Christian leaders have been asking, "What's wrong with us and our message today? Why do so...

Damon Gameau ate sugar-laden, low-fat food for 60 days and noticed results after 3 weeks. (Twitter) Just like Morgan Spurlock, who ate only McDonald's food for one month in the movie Super Size Me, an...

Patients often ask me if God wants humans to be vegetarians. The answer is yes and no. Originally, vegetarianism was His design for all people and animals (see Gen. 1:29-30). That plan changed when th...

Where's the place for divine discipline in the church? (Lightstock) The gospel is for everyone. All sinners are welcome—liars, thieves, whoremongers, prostitutes, murderers, homosexuals, drunkards a...

[Editor's note: I have come to know Wendy and her story through an amazing set of circumstances that only God could have arranged. She is a delightful woman who loves the Lord with all of her heart an...

Inclusiveness and diversity are perhaps valued more in modern American culture and government than any other characteristic — unless of course you’re dealing with Christians. Whether you’re a bu...

We have seen that Adam was the legal representative of humanity. For those who see full equality before the fall (egalitarians), at the very least, Adam’s legal-corporate responsibility was differen...

(Flickr) Husband-and-wife Pentecostal ministers who own a wedding chapel in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, refused to marry same-sex couples after a recent court ruling, and the American Civil Liberties Union...

(Reuters) With Halloween just days away, children—and some parents, too—are eagerly anticipating donning costumes and asking for a 'treat' from neighbors as the price for not having a 'trick' play...

Ted N.C. Wilson, leader of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, said Satan was using every means at his disposal to try to destroy the Adventist Church and neutralize its mission of proclaiming Jes...

The final meeting of the Theology of Ordination Study Committee saw the emergence of a “third way” caucus. This group acknowledges that Scripture sets forth a “model,” “pattern” or “idea...

A Pennsylvania banquet hall that refused to host a same-sex wedding because of the owner's Christian beliefs has come out victorious in a lawsuit. Following its longstanding policy, Inne of the Abingt...

As many of you know, the CRCBermuda family of sites had grown to three different sites: 1. The CRCB Main Site (http://www.crcbermuda.com); 2. The Present Truth Sermons Site (http://www.presenttruthser...

Ted N.C. Wilson, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, appealed to church members worldwide to earnestly read what the Bible says about women’s ordination and to pray that he and other chur...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – One in four Americans suffers from some kind of mental illness in any given year, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Many look to their church for spiritual gui...

I've never watched much daytime TV, but every week my local newspaper runs a plot summary for the most popular soap operas. I sometimes read these for a laugh. In one week, the plot of a typical dayti...

Pope Francis has been a breath of fresh air for many Catholics seeking greater liberty and a growing concern for conservative Christians who take issue with his comments about homosexuality and other...

Every Christian is responsible for their own decision to objectify another human or treat them with respect. If you're like me, you've probably heard both sides of the modesty debate—men versus wome...

APIA: 22 July 2012: The debate of which day is the ‘seventh day’ Sabbath in Samoa has taken a another twist with confirmation from the Seventh-day Adventist world headquarters in America, there is...

U.S. religious congregations are marching to their own drums now more than ever.The National Congregations Study's latest look at the country's churches, synagogues and mosques—the third wave of stu...

BY RON MATTHEWS The sound of glass shattering startled me from my sleep. Mommy and Daddy were fighting again. I tucked my knees under my chin and closed my eyes. This was nothing new. In a few minutes...

Bill Nye, best known among a generation of kids as "The Science Guy," came face-to-face with one of the most articulate creationists in our land and has concluded that even if it means going to hell,...

I've been participating in the life of a local church for over four decades. For most of these years, I've either been the pastor's kid, the youth pastor's wife, the children's pastor, or the elder's...

Most of you know that refined foods—a.k.a., "junk food"—are missing from the food pyramid for good reason: There's nothing healthy about them. Cookies, chips, white rice, white bread, pastries and...

Excessive sexual sin and nakedness is one of the marks of our Western culture and much of the world today. Everything is sensual. Everything must be sexy. We live in a sex-crazed world, and nakedness...

You've heard it said the enemy doesn't fight fair. Well, that's a spiritual warfare understatement if I've ever heard one. The devil is a dirty fighter—and he's just as subtle as he is dirty. He nev...

By Ruth Gledhill Evangelicals and other Christians worldwide are mourning the sudden death of a bishop in a breakaway Anglican church who had become a close personal friend of Pope Francis. British-bo...

Kristin E. Davis, RD, LD, OT/L Am J Lifestyle Med. 2014;8(4):231-234. Abstract and Introduction Abstract Diet is a contributing factor in the risk, development, and progression of cardiovascular disea...

She's always there. Sometimes in the background, sometimes with a welcoming smile up front, sometimes noticed and appreciated, sometimes being silently judged. Your pastor's wife; the powerful force b...

Jezebel was a Phoenician princess who married Ahab, king of Israel. Her father was Ethbaal, king and high priest of the Sidonians. Queen Jezebel introduced Baal worship into Israel. By acquiescing to...

I love homosexuals. Gays or lesbians who have read my writings for the AFA Journal for 18 years probably don't believe that statement. I can't say I blame them. When it comes to homosexual activism in...

Deep in my heart there is a stirring—not just a stirring that resembles a late-night craving for ice cream or the feelings of boyish infatuation with a high school crush, but a true "depths of my so...

New research shows that while 90 percent of pastors believe the Bible has much to say about today's pressing political and societal issues, fewer than 10 percent are talking about those issues from th...

Good news everyone! As I reported about two weeks ago, the site crashed when trying to upgrade the CMS. Today, I am happy to report that the site has been officially relaunched on a SSD (Solid State D...

10 Cultural Things That Are Seeking to Compromise the Church I am not necessarily advocating the work of Geert Hofsteed, but I find his attempt at defining a concept as difficult as the abstraction be...

A U.S. labor union is found to have assigned Sabbath work to Matthew Gray as a punishment for leaving the union. Posted July 30, 2014 By Adventist Review staff A Seventh-day Adventist air traffic cont...

Hello CRCBermuda users! On 15 July [2014], while upgrading the server software, the site underwent a crash. This resulted in the site going down completely. Several backups were used in an attempt to...

Research has shown that the more interactive a reading session is, the more you will absorb from it. So, to enhance our Bible Reading Plan implementation, we have added full text to go along with ever...

Frieda Souhuwat-Tomasoa tells why she changed her ticket from the flight shot down over Ukraine. Posted July 25, 2014 A Dutch Adventist woman who nearly flew on the Malaysia Airlines jet that was shot...

Michael O'Riordan July 14, 2014 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Drinking alcohol, even light to moderate consumption, appears to be associated with an increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation, according...

Shelley Wood July 11, 2014 LONDON, UK — There's more evidence that even low levels of alcohol consumption don't help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, this time from a unique study that aut...

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On 26 February 2011, the very first woman elder was ordained at Restoration SDA Church. This act now paves the way for the ordination of the first woman pastor in the region. It has also sparked a gre...