Twenty years ago we were holding our heads down in shame as we endured the ugly PTL scandal?which added new phrases to our national vocabulary such as “air conditioned dog house” and “gold-plated faucets.” Televangelist Jim Bakker went to prison, Jimmy Swaggart’s Bible college collapsed and many disillusioned people lost faith in evangelical ministries because donor funds were misused.

In one of the most innovative moves in its 98-year history, the Church of God Evangel will be available on-line beginning with the December 2007 issue.

The American Bible Society, founded in 1816, is joining with the NRB (National Religious Broadcasters) Network to broadcast the award-winning television program American Bible Society Presents. Every Tuesday at 7 p.m. EDT, American Bible Society Presents will air on the NRB Network on DIRECTV’s Channel 378, as part of the network’s Basic Family package.

As part of the ongoing efforts of Operation Compassion to assist survivors of the string of natural disasters in Indonesia, five containers were recently shipped.

This year, Jacqueline Huggins-through her involvement in translating the New Testament into the Filipino Kagayanen language -will become the:

By Justin Juozapavicius (Associated Press Writer) Oral Roberts University president Richard Roberts has asked the school’s board of regents for a leave of absence amid accusations of lavish spending at donors’ expense and illegal involvement in a political campaign.

Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, the nation’s largest network of women and men testifying to the harm they’ve endured from abortion, today praised a House legislative amendment urging federal agencies to study the psychological consequences of abortion. The measure that was amended, HR 20, originally included only a request to study postpartum depression.

By J. lee grady

We don’t talk much today about Nadab and Abihu. They were obscure Bible characters who failed miserably. Certainly their tragic story doesn’t work well as an illustration in the typical seeker-friendly sermon about wealth or success. So we tend to ignore these guys, even though they are mentioned in the Old Testament nine times.

The first Bible-companion textbook was adopted statewide in Alabama last Thursday. The state’s board of education unanimously approved The Bible and Its Influence as a comprehensive curriculum in literature for Alabama.