Author: Gordon Govier

NEWS RELEASECapital Chaplains LLC announces that A&J Specialty Services, Inc. of De Forest, Wisconsin, and Dane Manufacturing of Dane, Wisconsin, have signed agreements for corporate chaplaincy services for all employees and family/household members.

PHILADELPHIA — The play was 48 Toss, and 30 years later, Dick Vermeil remembers it as if he called it last Sunday. Herb Lusk took a pitch from Ron Jaworski, headed around left end and breezed unscathed 70 yards for a fourth-quarter touchdown. Four steps over the goal line at Giants Stadium, the Philadelphia Eagles’ running back rewrote the playbook. Alone in the end zone, with a crowd of 48,824 looking on, he celebrated with a gesture in what has since become a watershed moment in American sports. With little ceremony and no advance warning, Lusk kept his eyes straight,…

CLARKSTON, Ga., Sept. 21 — When the Rev. Phil Kitchin steps into the pulpit of the Clarkston International Bible Church on Sunday mornings, he stands eye to eye with the changing face of America. In the pews before him, alongside white-haired Southern women in their Sunday best, sit immigrants from the Philippines and Togo, refugees from war-scarred Liberia, Ethiopia and Sudan, even a convert from Afghanistan.Read more of this story.

The stepped-up use of technology has changed the way people worship in a way that some parishioners and experts like and others don’t.Read more of this story.

News ReleaseWE International and Escape Coffee Gallery presents A “Do Justice” awareness event. Featuring the works of David Lippiatt and Erin Rufledts’ Synapse: The Space Between. A visually communicative photo show celebrating the beauty of people in the less developed world while raising awareness about the realities, struggles and injustices facing many of their lives.

One of the most devastating consequences of divorce is the effect on the lives and spiritual foundations of children. All too often, children in divorce situations find themselves caught in the middle of a battle between their parents. With their lives suddenly being ripped apart, many find themselves torn from their familiar surroundings and friends due to the trauma of having to relocate under less than ideal circumstances. With both of their parents often being overwhelmed by their own emotional turmoil, many children find themselves lost in a violent storm with no safe place to turn to for help with…

A missionary in China sends a text message to his home church as if he were just across town. In Europe, immigrants from the Southern hemisphere plant churches with huge success. In Saudi Arabia, families with satellite dishes access Christian television and hear the gospel. In the United States, Anglican congregations place themselves under the authority of African bishops. Welcome to the global church. Or, as I prefer to call it, the flat church.Read more of this story.

Twenty five years of backgrounders on the Bible, describing the latest discoveries and developments in Biblical Archaeology, over 200 of the world’s top archaeologists and Bible scholars interviewed; that’s the story of The Book and the Spade, a Madison-produced radio program that will be celebrated next February with another exclusively designed Book & The Spade Holyland Study Tour. A Study Tour is more than a pilgrimage, it’s a chance to see the traditional Holyland sites along with the most important archaeological sites that are constantly refreshing our understanding of the Biblical stories.

SAN FRANCISCO – A renowned pioneer in the field of world missions urged Christian students to start their school year with the goal of fulfilling the university’s ultimate purpose, which is to unite knowledge.Read more of this story.

Megachurch Pastor Bill Hybels practiced his "Just Walk Across the Room" philosophy recently, listening to a Washington, D.C., cab driver explain how his Islamic faith gave him peace and satisfaction.Read more of this story.