Author: Gordon Govier

(St Louis, MO) – A record crowd of more than 22,000 Urbana 06 attendees stood to their feet with a Bible in one hand and a cell phone in the other as Urbana director Jim Tebbe opened the 21st triennial convention by asking them to pray a special request to God. “Ask God, ‘What does your Word, the Bible, have to say about my world?’ represented by your cell phone.” Read more.

Along a narrow road just outside of Bethlehem, shepherds trooped to their fields, as the eastern sky began to glow with the approaching dawn. Their minds were still reeling from the busy, confusing night. First they had been stunned by a fearsome angel with an announcement, followed by a spectacular sound and light show featuring an angel choir. They were directed to a stable in Bethlehem, where they found a young mother and father hovering over a manger, which cradled their new-born baby. When they told the new parents about the angels, they didn’t seemed surprised at all. In fact…

Dannie Carter has a soft, dry voice. "It’s all just praising God," he says. "It don’t matter what kind of building you have. The building is not God. God is inside of you. This is just a structure where we gather to worship God." For Carter, the structure is the Rodeway Inn on East Broadway where Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church has met for three years.Come Sunday mornings, you can go to the motel’s Terrace Room for breakfast or take a right down the corridor to the Illinois Room for spiritual nourishment.Christ the Solid Rock is one of a…

DALLAS (Reuters) – If it wasn’t for churches and religious charities, a lot of folks would go hungry in the United States this winter. But while most churches believe in helping the poor, they take different views on how to go about it. Read more.

Conflicts inside and outside the workplace aren’t new, but there is an effort in Madison to use forgiveness to build harmony in the business environment.Madison’s International Forgiveness Institute, a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1994, was established as an outgrowth of the social science research done at UW-Madison by Robert Enright and his colleagues.Read more.

MIAMI — When Eve took that forbidden first bite of organic apple, she had no idea she would be linking food and religion forever. Thousands of years later evangelicals and worshippers of low-carb diets are worrying about how many carbs are in their communion crackers.In the first go round, dozens of books like the Hallelujah Diet and The Maker’s Diet harkened the fare of Biblical times to take off the pounds that church potlucks and Sunday picnics packed on.But the latest crop of faith-based diet books are moving outside the realm of food and exercise, touting a more holistic approach…

ORLANDO, FLA. – It’s rush hour in southeast Orlando – Sunday rush hour, that is. About a dozen churches are within a few miles of one another, and more are under construction. Neighbors venturing out for bagels and other errands find themselves stuck in traffic, heads bowed not in faith but frustration. Some complain that the traffic persists all week, as religious, youth, sports, and other activities draw crowds after work and school. Read more.

CommentaryHOLLYWOOD, CA (ANS) — Since the launch of the Moral Majority in the late 1970’s, conservative Christians, Jews and other like-minded traditionalists have put their time, efforts and cash into Republican Party coffers. For the last several years, the GOP leadership has rewarded their efforts by running the most liberal government since Lyndon Baines Johnson! Read more.

On Friday, December 8, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents adopted a policy change that directly impacts student organizations such as InterVarsity. We are thankful that the regents recognized a change was necessary. We hope that their action will allow our chapters at UW-Superior and UW-Madison to be fully recognized soon. Read more.

(CBS) You don’t have to look far to see why the University of Wisconsin makes the Top 10 list of party schools year after year, CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports. A trip down popular State Street says it all. But these days, another kind of bingeing is catching on, one that is less about beer and more about the Bible. Read the story. Video interview about this story.