A political science professor at Vanderbilt University says a new campus policy that restricts Christian groups’ freedoms should serve as a wake-up call to all Americans.

The annual search is on for the longest married couple in the United States it was announced today by the U.S. leaders of Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME), the original faith-based marriage enrichment program in this country.

Freedom From Chains launched a website (www.FreedomFromChains.org) to help orphans, widows, and the poor. The website highlights orphan sponsorship, native missionary sponsorship, and compassion ministries in the 1040 window.

This fall, Lee University welcomed more students than ever before with an enrollment of 4,411. Lee students come from 49 states and 50 foreign countries, and this is the 26th year of increased numbers at the Cleveland campus of the Church of God’s flagship institution.

On entering the auditorium Sister Emma Barr was the first to dance upstairs. . . .

In response to comments by Dallas Southern Baptist pastor and Rick Perry supporter Robert Jeffress regarding the Mormon faith of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, The National Clergy Council, representing church leaders from all Christian traditions including fundamentalist and evangelical, issues the following statement by its executive council member, the Reverend Myke Crowder, pastor of Christian Life Center, one of the largest evangelical congregations in Utah, a predominantly Mormon state:

The October 2011 WebCast with Church of God General Overseer Dr. Raymond F. Culpepper is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, October 11 at 7:00 p.m. EST.

On October 1, 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona, the memberships of CrossGlobal Link (formerly IFMA) and The Mission Exchange (formerly EFMA) agreed to merge, forming a body representative of 35,000 evangelical missionaries deployed in every country by more than 190 agencies and churches.

Dr. Ravi Zacharias, a well-known Christian apologist, teacher, author, and orator, will speak in the Lee University Conn Center on Sunday, Oct. 9, for the second “U-Church” service this fall.