. [Dear Readers - The May 2010 Christian Observer Editor's Message is presented by the Rev. Dr. Charles Wilson, Editor of the ARPTalk Blog and the Rev. Dr. Dean Turbeville, Pastor of the All Saints Presbyterian Church (Associate Reformed Presbyterian (ARP)) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Both of these Teaching Elders continue to fight the good and Godly fight for the future of Erskine College and Theological Seminary, which has seen a great battle arise between secularism and biblical faithfulness since the March 2010 called meeting of the ARP General Synod, the synod ...

What does “conservative evangelical” mean? Frankly, at Answers in Genesis, we don’t know any more! And the fact that we don’t know should be a dire warning to church leaders and parents concerning the future of our young people—including the colleges (and seminaries) many of them will attend.

The First Commandment No other gods Deuteronomy 6:4-9 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall ...

. Presbyterians Week Headlines . [1] ARPTalk Issue 33 Asks: “Why has the lawsuit by Erskine Board of Trustee (BOT) members Richard Taylor, Parker Young, and David Chesnut NOT been dropped?” [2] United Church of Christ “Stillspeaking” Daily Devotional for 21 July 2010 Denies Divinity of Jesus Christ [3] 200 Women per Year Killed in India after being Accused of Witchcraft [4] Guest Speaker at PCUSA General Assembly Rouses Delegates by Straying from the Party Line [5] PCUSA Board of Pensions Directed to Study Providing Domestic Partner Benefits by 2012 [6] Update – Audit ...

From the Christian perspective we are called to find the Lord Jesus Christ as a vital part of education, and this does not contradict with secular education.  The separation of the church and state does not threaten true learning in Christ.   It is a life that stands not from the support of the state, but the realization within the individual who knows Christ. Education was very much a part of the Calvinistic influence that once permeated the USA.  Calvin was a completely dedicated Christian, but his education and teaching was not only from the Bible but as well from the humanities ...

. by Bob Vincent . Until well into my life-time, the overwhelming majority of Americans believed that the United States was a Christian nation. In believing that, they did not desire the persecution of other religions, nor did they want to see people forced to become Christians, nor did they believe that one Christian denomination should be favored at the expense of others. They rejected the concept of one Christian denomination functioning as an established national Church, as the Churches of England and Scotland still do today in Great Britain. But Americans overwhelmingly believed that Christian ideas and ...