Presbyterian Leader Warns Against Withholding Money

The leader of the Presbyterian Church (USA) said pastors and churches who withhold money from the denomination in protest are violating their ordination vows and promoting schism. In a strongly worded Jan. 3 letter to the church’s 173 regional governing bodies,...

Kentucky Creationist Proclaims War on Evolutionism

“This is a cultural war,” said Ken Ham told the Los Angeles Times. Ham is director of the global ministry Answers in Genesis and creator of a museum he said will take the “offensive against the scientific establishment.” Ham is building a...

Robertson Resigns from Christian Coalition

Pat Robertson, the foremost leader of the religious right, resigned yesterday as president of the Christian Coalition, some two months after he and Jerry Falwell blamed certain Americans for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In his resignation, Robertson, 71, said he...

American Muslim Population Lower than Originally Thought

Contrary to earlier claims by American Islamic organizations that the number of American Muslims totaled 7 million, two new studies indicate the numbers are actually much lower. One study, The American Religious Identification Study, was done by the Graduate Center of...

Church Rush Following Sept. 11 Diminishes

New faces may have crowded into neighborhood churches following the Sept. 11 attacks, but few have stuck around. Gary Fenton, pastor at Dawson Memorial Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., told BCE that there was initially a general increase in attendance at all...