Following its Friday evening hearing, the Program, Budget and Finance Committee voted to craft its proposed budget based on a 19% asking for 2013-2015. The Committee third hearing, on spending, will take place Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m.
Evans offered several reasons for the decline, including increased competition from a proliferating number of non-religious organizations, a decrease in church attendance, and a general lack of sophistication within religious institutions regarding fundraising. “Clergy in America have not been sufficiently trained as CEO’s of institutions to be comfortable and conversant with contemporary fundraising technology and techniques”
More important, is secular society so divided from religion that a secular person can’t pass as Christian?
Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation – which had become official January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation had little impact on the Texans due to the minimal number of Union troops to enforce the new Executive Order.
Running unopposed, Fred Luter, is the newly-elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the first African-American to hold the post. AP has a report.
Cathedral Chamberlain Dr Richard Shephard said: ‘The need for funds to restore and conserve the historic fabric of the Minster is never-ending and I am sure that this extraordinary fund-raising event will do much to assist us in our work.’ Wow!Grass! has also been used to create an indoor rugby pitch at The Grosvenor Hotel in London and a temporary ‘village green’ in Trafalgar Square.
An Authoritative God is thought to be actively engaged in daily activities and historical outcomes. For those with an Authoritative God, value concerns are synonymous with economic concerns because God has a guiding hand in both. Around two-thirds of believers in an Authoritative God conjoin their theology with free-market economics, creating a new religious-economic idealism. Nearly one-fifth of American voters hold this viewpoint.
Despite considerable research showing that children of same-sex parents fare just as well as children with heterosexual parents, two papers — a review of existing studies and a new study — published June 10 in Elsevier’s Social Science Research, find insufficient data to draw any definitive conclusions.
Gay Clark Jennings has announced her candidacy for President, House of Deputies on Facebook.
16 of the 20 African countries which have had detailed surveys of living conditions since 2005 reported falls in their child-mortality rates. Twelve had falls of over 4.4% a year, which is the rate of decline that is needed to meet the millennium development goal of cutting by two-thirds the child-mortality rate between 1990 and 2015.