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Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are also days when children have an opportunity to develop their relationship with God. Between church camps, Vacation Bible School, Child Evangelism Fellowship 5-Day Clubs and other programs, kids can learn a lot about God.
The news media have been filled with stories recently about two of the top female religious leaders in the U.S. I’m speaking of course of Lady Gaga and Oprah Winfrey.
(WNS)–Some anemic academics say biblical belief has no place in the social sciences because it keeps people from open-minded analysis of data. Actually, the opposite is true. In 1995 I was one of many to visit the Kenosha County Job Center in Wisconsin. At that time Kenosha was the shiny face of state-level welfare reform: Twelve state delegations, dozens of reporters, and welfare bureaucrats from all over, including Tanzania, came and marveled. I wrote positively about the work requirements but noted a big problem: On the walls of two large training rooms were signs proclaiming, “A family doesn’t need a…
PINE BLUFF — An estimated 300 people gathered May 24, on the Feast of Our Lady, Help of Christians, as Bishop Robert C. Morlino dedicated the new Miracle of Life Rosary Garden here.
During last year’s Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum, at a special viewing for the local Jewish community, two women stood confounded before the reproduction of the famed Isaiah scroll. Troubled by the translation of Isaiah 7:14 that said a messiah would be born of a “virgin,” they quickly sought out a docent. That’s just one interpretation of the Hebrew word almah, the docent, a prominent Jewish educator, told them. Many scholars, he noted, translate the word as “young woman.” Two new English revisions of the Bible – the New American Bible published by the U.S. Conference…
BARABOO — It was a joyful day at Durward’s Glen on Saturday, May 14, as the new local owners celebrated their purchase of the retreat and educational center. “Durward’s Glen has been here for almost 150 years,” said Mardell Krejchik, the center’s director, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. “We are so happy to continue the history and tradition started here by the Durward family.” Krejchik held up the certificate declaring that Durward’s Glen is on the National Register of Historic Places.
A 300-resident, privately owned student housing facility in Madison that state lawmakers in 2009 quietly made exempt from paying local property taxes is on track to be added back to the tax roll. The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted 14-2 on Thursday in favor of repealing the exemption for Pres House, an 80,000-square-foot facility owned by the Presbyterian Student Center Foundation.
Two Milwaukee-area faith-based groups on Friday voiced their opposition to legislation, now pending in Wisconsin, that would allow the carrying of concealed weapons in public. In separate statements, the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee and the Jewish Community Relations Council condemned the measures, which do not exempt houses of worship, saying they would endanger public safety and perpetuate a culture of violence and fear.
Many months ago, the Rev. Eugene Johnson picked the 2011 theme for the Madison Pentecostal Assembly, where he is senior pastor. By coincidence, it has turned out to be a doozy: “Maintain a Rapture Ready Attitude.” Johnson said he had no idea at the time that a loosely organized Christian movement would begin spreading the word that the world will end Saturday. He hasn’t joined the movement.
Harold Camping may not have convinced evangelical Christians that Jesus is coming back on May 21st, but he has gotten the attention of the media elite. Garry Trudeau is skewering the rapture crowd in the Doonesbury comic strip this week, National Public Radio has covered Camping, and the Washington Post lined up a whole page of bloggers to weigh in on eschatology, including Jewish, Hindu and atheist perspectives. Harold Camping is the president of Family Radio, a national network of 66 Christian radio stations, the nearest of which is WMWK in Milwaukee. Camping has a history of end-of-the-world predictions. Remember…