Canadian Council for Reform Judiasm
The Canadian Council for Reform Judaism and the URJ Canada Steering Committee represent 25 Reform Congregations from Montreal to Vancouver with over 30,000 affiliated members.
Category: Faith leaders
“How does it work? A crash course on the Southern Baptist Convention”
Towers Online, the news service of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has a primer about the SBC and its annual meeting.
“Southern Baptists look for cures to stagnation”
Read a June 10, 2009, Religion News Service story, “Southern Baptists look for cures to stagnation.”
“Southern Baptist Decline and God’s Bottom Line”
Read a Dec. 22, 2008, post by David Waters, editor of the “On Faith” site of The Washington Post, crunching the numbers and analyzing the SBC downturn.
“The Next Big Southern Baptist Debate: Purging the Membership Rolls”
Read a June 12, 2008, blog post at Christianity Today about the previous SBC convention, and the disputes over numbers and membership rolls. Ted Olsen lists several statistics chronicling the downturn.
“A new way to become a rabbi?”
Read an Aug. 24, 2012, article from The Jewish Standard about a controversial, one-year online seminary, the Jewish Spiritual Leaders Institute.
“Clergy Launch Campaign For Student Loan Forgiveness, Aim To Qualify For ‘Public Service’ Rule”
Read a Feb. 8, 2012, Huffington Post article about clergy launching a campaign for federal student loan forgiveness based on a 2007 law aimed at graduates who go into public service.
“Catholic seminary enrollment up, but numbers seen as only part of story”
Read a Nov. 29, 2011, story from Catholic News Service about rising enrollments at Catholic seminaries.
“Seminaries look to update ministers’ skill set”
Read an Oct. 31, 2011, Christian Century article about curriculum overhauls at many seminaries.