By Mike McManus Why are 1,500 clergy leaving pastoral ministry each month? Many have been driven out by the “Clergy Killer Phenomenon.” As one pastor put it in a powerful new documentary, “BETRAYED: The Clergy Killer’s DNA,” “So many ministers are being destroyed by evil and evil people in the life of the church who […]

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DORCAS BRINSON World Missions Director Dr. David M. Griffis and Assistant Director Dr. M. Thomas Propes extend their deepest heartfelt sympathy to the Brinson Family in the passing June 9, 2021, of their wife, mother, and grandmother, Dorcas Brinson. The Brinsons’ son, Terrell, is currently serving as a World Missions Representative, making an impact on […]

Upon Bulgaria’s national holiday (March 3rd), we have called for a 3-day prayer and fasting through our churches in Bulgaria for the following needs: 1. National repentance and God’s favor over our nation 2. Political stability in response to the ongoing almost 300-day protest against the current government formation 3. Blessing in place of the […]

(This piece was originally published in Collect Magazine, Issue 2, in February 2011). As I write this, it’s nearing four on a weekday morning and I’m slumped in my office chair, bathed in LCD glow, waiting for Steve Jobs to arrive onscreen in trademark turtleneck and faded 501s and announce the future of everything, ever. On the […]

This book on serpent handling by Pentecostals give a good early description of the Church Of God’s belief system. If Thomas Burton can so adequately define the COG beliefs why can’t COG ABs do the same.