Author: Gordon Govier

COMMENTARYOne of the great treasures from the Roman Catholic tradition is its longstanding list of the Seven Deadly Sins (e.g.: Envy, Greed, Gluttony, Anger, Sloth, Lust, and Pride). Even with its limitations, such as isolating only a few areas of failure, this teaching has highlighted human tendencies that offend God, and harm us. It has been a good teaching tool for young disciples.Read more of this story.

Public-school courses on the Bible…there aren’t that many. But they’re rising in popularity. Read more of this story.Professor: Religion courses have place in public schoolsQ & A with Stephen Prothero, author on religious literacy, Dallas Morning News

COMMENTARYHe was a small man—barely five feet in his knickers, knee socks, and ballooning white shirts. For two weeks, first as a freshman and then again as a senior, I sat in my assigned seat at Wheaton College’s chapel and heard him cry. He was the evangelical conscience at the end of the 20th century, weeping over a world that most of his peers dismissed as not worth saving, except to rescue a few souls in the doomed planet’s waning hours. While Hal Lindsey was disseminating an exit strategy in The Late Great Planet Earth, Francis Schaeffer was trying to…

COMMENTARY Lent and March Madness have something in common—they both involve a lot of prayer. The two come around for a visit every spring, like young-adult children who look and act remarkably different yet acknowledge they’re somehow related. Lent, of course, is the elder, quietly sober, disciplined, and sometimes penitential; March Madness (whose real name is NCAA Basketball Tournament) can get hysterical, obsessive, and sometimes criminally insane. But it’s usually short-lived.Read more of this story.

MADISON — If you love life, you should show it by being joyful. That was the message given by speakers at the first diocesan Respect Life Dinner held on March 13 at the Edgewater Hotel in downtown Madison. Read more of this story.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (ANS) — The Hollywood Prayer Network (HPN) today launched the organization’s red 90028 wristbands and mySpace website as the next phase in their effort to raise awareness of Hollywood as "the world’s most influential mission field."Read more of this story.

Paul Grant, who attends Madison’s Fountain of Life Church, is a historian of cool. He knows where cool comes from, what’s the opposite of cool and how to be cool. He knows what makes cool, um, cool. “Although cool has a history, it likes to think of itself as forever young, or not having a history,” he says.Read more of this story.

NEWS RELEASEMADISON — The Family Research Institute of Wisconsin announced today that the statewide 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization has changed its name to Wisconsin Family Council, Inc.

In the past two years, Max Lucado, senior minister at San Antonio’s Oak Hills Church and a best-selling Christian author, has completed three half-Ironman Triathlons. Given that, it was unusual for the man called "America’s Best Preacher" in 2005 by Reader’s Digest to suddenly feel exhausted. Read more of this story.

Madison – The state Elections Board has dismissed a complaint against the Catholic Diocese of Madison, which included with a pre-election edition of its official newspaper an appeal that Catholics vote to change the state constitution to ban gay marriages. The board also dismissed a complaint against a suburban Madison church, Monona Oaks Community Church, that passed out 1,500 fliers that also urged a "yes" vote on the constitutional ban on gay marriages on Nov. 7.