Author: Gordon Govier

GREEN LAKE – Delegates from United Church of Christ congregations around Wisconsin have gone on record against the proposed state constitutional amendment defining marriage that will be on the ballot in November. Read more.

Burning rubber … screaming fans … ear–drum bursting engines … Friday night at the Madison International Speedway was everything you’d ever expect. Except for some of the drivers…Madison area pastors.Read more at NBC15.

HOLLYWOOD, CA (ANS) — CARS wins hands down the checkered flag for a great premiere at the Number One NASCAR speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina, and for even better interviews with the cast, the crew and the executives involved in this really family-friendly movie. Read more.

MADISON — Bishop Robert C. Morlino, head of the Diocese of Madison, expressed his disappointment at the vote taken June 7 failing to approve Senate Joint Resolution 1, the Marriage Protection Amendment.Read the rest of the story at www.madisoncatholicherald.org

Well after 10 p.m. one night in late April, the Rev. Rob Bell is sitting patiently in a tall director’s chair on the platform of the Lake Street subway station in downtown Chicago. Story in the Chicago Sun Times.

LA MIRADA, CALIFORNIA (ANS) — He learned the soft drink business around the family dinner table and went on to head L.A. Coke. After an early retirement, he used his faith, business acumen, and networking skills to launch a business mentoring program for MBA students at Biola University. More from ASSIST NEWS.

“The God who is at work in the world today is a God of history,” says missions expert Paul Borthwick. This year, 2006 – an Urbana year – uniquely highlights some important anniversaries in the history of missions and student involvement in missions.

BELLFLOWER, CALIF. (ANS) — Sharing the Gospel to people of various religions will be the focus of the reality-type television show "The Way of the Master" as it enters its third season, said co-hosts Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort.

WASHINGTON, DC (ANS) — It is a long way from the small Iowa city of Cedar Rapids to Nagaland, the mysterious state in northeastern India, but that is where Tim Phillips and his friend, Daniel Hurt, travel regularly to minister and be ministered to by these extraordinary people who have gone from being head hunters to becoming soul hunters. I met up with Phillips and Hurt on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, at a all day event called "Nagalim…Discovered," in the Gold Room of the Rayburn Building on Thursday, May 25.

Two groups of dancers danced at the Madison House of Prayer for all Nations on Tuesday night. On the program was Dancing the Way, a ministry of My People International, composed of Native American Dancers. But before they started, a dance team from the House of Prayer welcomed them with an expression of repentance for the history of broken promises and broken relationships between the dominant culture and the native peoples.