May 2005

Combs Advises Creation-Science Museum

Bob Combs, pastor of the Norton (OH) Grace Brethren Church-South Campus and past moderator of the FGBC, is serving as advisor to a new creation science museum in the Akron area. (photo by Ken Crisafi) Today’s Akron Leader carries the following article, which quotes Combs extensively and gives background on the new museum. By Stephanie […]

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Tracy, CA, Church Targeted for Picketing

The Tracy, California, Grace Brethren Church (Robert MacMillan, pastor, pictured) has been targeted by a notorious hate group for picketing on Sunday, June 12, according to news reports. The Tracy church, along with five other Tracy churches and the local high school, will apparently be picketed by one of two teams from a Kansas church

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Regressive Assimilation and Voiceless Dental Fricatives

Kevin and Holly High, currently in Spanish language school enroute to missionary service in Argentina, send along this message, excerpted from a longer e-mail. Bottom line? Pray for the Highs!! The end of the Spring semester in Spanish language school at the Rio Grande two-hour each day final starting at 8:15. Monday’s final is on

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Quality Education Needs Biblical Literacy

The following release, posted today at www.christianpost.com, points out the importance of biblical literacy to being generally well-educated.Biblical literacy gives students educational advantages but most American teens lack basic knowledge of the Bible Biblical literacy gives students educational advantages but most American teens lack basic knowledge of the Bible, according to surveys presented at the

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Chance Encounter Leads to NFL Appearance

Bruce Barlow (pictured), associate pastor at Winona Lake (IN) Grace Brethren Church, was on a plane last February with his son, Trent, enroute to a college visit. They struck up a conversation over Trent’s high school jacket with a fellow traveler, who turned out to be David Thornton, a six-foot, two-inch 230-pound linebacker with the

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