Author: Shalem John

As the government shutdown stretches into its third week, everyday citizens are beginning to feel its effects. For physicians working in rural areas, the shutdown has further exposed health care challenges that depend on a working Congress for solutions.  To learn more, Russell Moore and Mike Cosper of The Bulletin sat down with Kevin Stansbury, chief executive officer of Lincoln Community Hospital and Care Center in Hugo, Colorado, a small town with a population of just under 800 people.  This conversation is edited and condensed from a discussion that appeared in episode 217 of The Bulletin. Listen to the whole…

Not even two weeks after the Church of England unveiled Sarah Mullally as the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury, a network of conservative Anglicans has exploded what fragile harmony or consensus existed. A statement released last week from Archbishop of Rwanda Laurent Mbanda, chair of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (Gafcon), announced his group plans to take control of global Anglicanism and refound it on scriptural orthodoxy. The Archbishop of Canterbury has for centuries served as the “first among equals” spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, a family of 42 churches worldwide that derive from the Church of England. But…

Death: 03.02.1900 Birth: 23.04.1827 Native Place: Karaiyiruppu, Tirunelveli Country: India Place of Vision:- Krishna Pillai was born into an orthodox Hindu Vaishnavite family in a small town called Karaiyiruppu in the Tirunelveli district. He received his early education in Tamil grammar and literature. Thereafter, he moved to Sawyerpuram in Tamil Nadu, where he was appointed as a Tamil teacher by Bishop Robert Caldwell. The Sawyerpuram settlement was founded by the ‘Society for Propagation of the Gospel’. It was at Sawyerpuram that Pillai had his first encounter with Christianity. Once a visiting missionary to Sawyerpuram presented him a New Testament. Though…