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Each autumn for almost two decades, volunteers from Baraboo’s Walnut Hill Bible Church host a couple hundred international students from the UW-Madison for a Saturday afternoon meal and hayride. The event is coordinated with campus ministries that work with the international students.
With the northeastern third of the country in the destructive grip of Hurricane Sandy, and the presidential election just one week away, about 500 Madison area residents representing over a half dozen churches gathered at City Church, 4909 E. Buckeye Road, to pray this evening.”It’s not about the Democratic and Republican parties,” said Tom Flaherty, senior pastor of the host church. “We are praying for the will of God to be done. We need to get our eyes on God tonight.”
Walter C. Kaiser Jr. has been coming to Madison for many years. Speaking at Blackhawk Church’s expansive campus at 9620 Brader Way on Thursday evening, October 25, 2012, someone mentioned that Kaiser had also spoken at the church back in the sixties when it was a tiny congregation of the Evangelical Free Church planted on Blackhawk Avenue. In the intervening decades Kaiser moved from teaching at both Wheaton College and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in suburban Chicago, to become vice president and academic dean at Trinity, then to become a Distinguished Professor of Old Testament at Gordon Conwell Seminary in…
For the last couple decades archaeologists have been arguing over whether Jerusalem was the kingly capital of David and Solomon, as the Bible reports, or just a backwater home of a couple of tribal chiefs who had good PR, as the lack of certain archaeological evidence might suggest. Andrew Vaughn, the executive director of the American Schools of Oriental Research–the main organization of archaeologists working in Israel and the surrounding region, brought a new perspective to the dispute in a talk to the Madison Biblical Archaeology Society last weekend.
A pro quarterback better be able to throw a pass. A cardiologist must be able to interpret an EKG. These skills are essentials of their trades. Pastoral ministry also has fundamentals. But in today’s world, it’s hard to stay focused on the pastoral essentials. We met with four pastors in Madison, Wisconsin, to explore the pastoral essentials and the distractions that pull us away from our core calling…
I asked a group of pastors this question: Why are so many Americans walking away from organized religion, and what can be done to reverse the trend? Read more of this story.
Twenty seven years ago today I took a walk around Lake Monona, along with about 30 other people including John Kyle, who was then Missions Director of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. It was called The Walk for Hidden Peoples. The goal was to develop momentum around the idea of reaching all of the peoples of the world with the gospel message by the year 2,000 and fulfilling The Great Commission.
Madison is the perfect location for a C.S. Lewis conference, given Lewis’s intellectual approach to the Christian faith. The members of the C.S. Lewis Society of Madison seem to feel that way. The society is sponsoring a conference this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the Pyle Center on the University of Wisconsin Campus.The theme of the conference is The Ten Books That Most Influenced C.S. Lewis. Speakers are coming from as far away as the University of Otago in New Zealand, New York University, and Houston Baptist University. I am particularly looking forward to hearing HBU professor Louis Markos, who…
On Nov. 4, the Rev. John Clark plans to get a few things off his chest, possibly breaking the law in the process. Clark, pastor of Evangel Life Center in Madison, says he’ll preach a no-holds-barred sermon two days before the presidential election that will give parishioners a clear biblical road map for evaluating candidates. He’s not revealing what he plans to say, but he promises it will cross into territory the Internal Revenue Service says a church should avoid if it wants to keep its tax-exempt status.
COLUMBUS — Elizabeth A. Larson, MD, is a Catholic physician who will bring her beliefs into her work in Columbus. Dr. Larson will be opening her own independent practice in family medicine with a focus in obstetrics in Columbus starting on October 15. Read more of this story.