Author: MC Editor

For the past 20 years Mt. Zion food pantry has assisted anyone in need in their community, open on the 1st and 3rdMondays and 4th Tuesdays of every month. Most of the food comes from the Second Harvest Food Bank, but some is purchased from Woodman’s as a supplement; no grant money comes in for the pantry, it is run entirely by the members of Mt. Zion. During this season of pandemic, the food pantry has not closed its doors and has even added some new services to help meet the needs of their community.  Rev. Dr. Marcus Allen, Pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist…

“Labels matter. So do definitions. Evangelicals are best defined by their beliefs,” says Ed Stetzer on his blog at Christianity Today.

The story of Jeremy Lin’s breakout performance for the New York Knicks basketball team over the past ten days has been all over the media. Tonight, the sixth victory in a row for the Knicks since Lin took off, including the winning basket as time ran out. In five starts he’s scored 136 points, a feat unequalled by any modern NBA player. It’s called Linsanity. Lin fans can be found on both coasts, in New York where he now plays, in the Boston area where he attended Harvard, and in California, where he grew up. Asian Americans have never had…

Chaplaincy training is being offered May 2-6, 2011, here in Madison. Crisis Response Wisconsin and Capital Chaplains are hosting International Fellowship of Chaplains (I.F.O.C.) to provide Basic Chaplaincy Training. The purpose of the Basic Chaplaincy Training is to provide core training for workplace chaplains, first responders and church-based crises teams in the area of Critical Incident Stress Management, Death Notification, and Spirituality and Trauma. Additional topics to be covered include how better to serve those dealing with Depression, Grief and Loss, Death and Dying and Suicide.

In a classy and touching move, former Green Bay Packer cornerback Al Harris thanked Packer fans for supporting him during his years with the Green and Gold in an advertisement in Sunday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Many jobs in ministry require a seminary degree or other theological training. But there are other ministry jobs locally that do not require theological training. For instance, some local churches and other local ministries need support staff. Door Creek Church and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship currently have such openings.

PORTLAND, OR (August 23, 2010) — Billy Rojas and the Centroids community today issued the Ground Zero Declaration, a detailed set of principles that support religious freedom but oppose construction of the Cordoba House (aka Park 51) Islamic center near the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan. This declaration builds on the concerns expressed by politicians such as Newt Gingrich and George Pataki, supported by a detailed analysis of where Islamic beliefs are incompatible with American values. The Declaration consists of four sections: Affirmation of core American values, including religious freedom Summation of the argument against a new Islamic…

A mini debate has exploded on several blogs over whether President-elect Barack Obama can call himself a Christian. If you’re just catching up, first read this 2004 interview with Obama, but here are the relevant sections. FALSANI: Who’s Jesus to you? (Obama laughs nervously) OBAMA: Right. Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of…

The Freedom from Religion Foundation is based in Madison, WI – right in our backyard. Their influence reaches across the whole country. Below are some links to what they’ve been up to lately.COLORADO IS BEING SUED FOR ‘DAY OF PRAYER’: Freedom from Religion Foundation organization filed lawsuitNovember 19, 2008 NOREEN: Imagine everybody friendly for a changeNovember 19, 2008 FFRF Sues Colorado Governor Over Prayer ProclamationsNovember 13, 2008 Bill Berkowitz: Medefind minds Bush’s faith-based storeNovember 19, 2008 Atheists Reach Out — Just Don’t Call It ProselytizingNovember 18, 2008 Freedom From Religion Upset Over City Council’s Change of PlanNovember 7, 2008

Two years ago, Facing the Giants, a low-budget sports movie made by volunteers at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, grossed $10 million on a budget of only $100,000. This year, Sherwood scored a bigger hit when Fireproof, a marriage-in-crisis movie made for $500,000, surpassed even the $25 million take of Big Idea’s 2002 film, Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. (It has currently earned $28,327,659, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.) Read more >>