Trustees of Ashland University, a private Ohio college, have reversed their decision to hire only Christians and Jews as teachers and administrators. Ashland University trustees agreed Monday to drop the hiring policy that they put in place last October. Instead, faculty members and administrators will be required only to express support for the school’s commitment […]

As insurgents in Iraq pledged to greet the nation’s historic democratic election with violence and bombings, Christians in the U.S. vowed to pray for God’s peace and protection for the Iraqi people. In a statement released Thursday, the Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition said several top evangelical bodies are planning to partake

Jerry White, chairman of the board of directors of the Christian Management Association, announced this month that John Pearson, CMA’s president/CEO since 1994, is resigning his position, effective Dec. 31, 2005. Pearson is launching a new consulting firm in 2006 to serve ministries, churches and associations. He has served as CEO of three associations for

“Driven,” the new national conference for young adults to be held June 15-18, has debuted a new website containing program, schedule, and registration information. To be held near Columbus, OH, the conference is designed to call and equip those in the years 19-29, which have often been branded as the “Lost Decade.” DRIVEN was set

Grace Brethren Chaplain James Schaefer, serving with his troops in Afghanistan, sent this message from one of his troops, Edward Leyshon, explaining the naming of the PFC Jerrod Dennis Combat Hospital, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Here is a slightly-edited version of soldier Leyshon’s explanation. (photo courtesy James Schaefer) On April 25, 2003 there was a major

Grace Brethren International Mission’s Ted Rondeau (right) surveys flood damage and the search for additional missing people during a recent tour of the tsunami-damaged area of southeast Thailand. GBIM’s Wayne Hannah will leave next week for a “setup trip” to scout and coordinate ways in which Grace Brethren personnel and relief funds may best be

Marysville, OH, Grace Brethren Church, which meets at Navin Elementary, 16265 County Home Rd., Marysville, Ohio, will be hosting an evening of worship with Jeremiah & Marcie Olson and ‘40 miles north,’ a grassroots soulful acoustic rock duo. The Olsons are worship leaders at Grace Community Church in Goshen, Indiana, (Jim Brown, pastor) and have

‘Blue Monday’ most depressing of 2005 A psychologist has predicted that today is the most depressing day of 2005. Cardiff University’s Cliff Arnalls used a complicated mathematical formula to calculate that January 24 is truly a “Blue Monday”. He said fading memories of Christmas, mounting debts, poor weather, failed New Year resolutions and the long,

Intervarsity Christian Fellowship recently announced it would no longer host the Urbana conference at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Though the Urban-Champaign facilities had served the Intervarsity Fellowship well for 50 years, the growing number of participants each year has strained available resources and space needed to conduct the conference successfully. St. Louis, the

Ron Boehm, Midwest Regional Career Missionary with Grace Brethren North American Missions, sends the following report (at our request) of the Church Planter’s Assessment just completed today in Chambersburg, PA. Ron reports: We had eight that were assessed. We started the process Thursday afternoon and planned to finish by 1 p.m. Saturday, but when we