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Last year, the State Journal became curious about how a storefront church grows into a thriving congregation — or doesn’t — so we began tracking one. We chose Madison Alliance Church, but it could have been any of a number of religious startups that pop up around the city from time to time.
BOSTON, MA 6 August 2012 – The Lausanne Movement has appointed a Lausanne Senior Associate for Creation Care. Rev. Edward R. Brown, Executive Director of Care of Creation, an environmental mission organization based in Madison, WI, accepted the position in June at the Lausanne International Leadership meeting.
A chill went up my spine when I got home from church on Sunday and heard about the shooting at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, just a few miles from where I live. I was stunned because the shooting was taking place just as I was preaching at Elmbrook Church on Psalm 46:9: “He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire.” I had said: imagine if today the suicide bomber’s detonation device shorted out, all tanks and artillery stopped working, all AK-47′s…
The Downtown Madison site of St. Raphael Cathedral, which was destroyed by arson in 2005, will be turned into a park-like public space that will include an elaborate walking path commemorating Christ’s final hours.
A Chicago-area bishop who oversaw a significant expansion of United Methodist Church in northern Illinois has been named to lead the denomination’s Wisconsin Conference for the next four years. Bishop Hee-Soo Jung succeeds Wisconsin Bishop Linda Lee, who will retire in September. Jung is the third person of Korean descent to be named a bishop in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, and the first non-Anglo to lead the diverse Wisconsin Conference, the organization said Tuesday.
The Elmbrook School District violated the constitutional separation of church and state by holding graduation ceremonies inside Elmbrook Church, the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Monday. The ruling reverses a previous ruling by a district court and a 7th Circuit three-judge panel.
The Obama administration has offended some atheists. One day after Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters he gets on his knees every day and prays for rain, the Council for Secular Humanism — a leading atheist group — accused the Obama administration of sending the wrong message to farmers caught in one of the worst droughts in decades. “It sends the wrong message to distraught farmers when the Agriculture secretary suggests that the best response is to pray,” Tom Flynn, executive director of the council and editor of its journal Free Inquiry, said in a statement. Read more of this…
Madison—Wisconsin Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner (R) announced yesterday that he is authoring legislation that will repeal the “Obamacare Religious Freedom Tax.” Following is a statement from Wisconsin Family Action’s president, Julaine Appling, reacting to Rep. Sensenbrenner’s proposal. “Congressman Sensenbrenner is the cavalry riding to our rescue. As he says, ‘our religious liberties are not bartering chips.’
Madison, WI 17 July 2012 — The first ever Lausanne Movement Consultation for North American Younger Leaders brings together a diverse collection of change agents, thought-practitioners, and younger leaders to strategize on fresh approaches to sharing the Christian message. The consultation will see 120 select younger leaders from the U.S. and Canada gathering at Madison’s Inn on the Park, July 24-26, 2012.
madisonchristians.com encourages a city-wide perspective on Christian ministry. We believe Christians from different faiths, and churches of different denominations can multiply their outreach impact by working together. We were encouraged by a World on Campus report on a young adult ministry in Charlotte, North Carolina, called CharlotteONE, which is supported by a coalition of 48 churches.