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Just reaching a 95th birthday is cause for celebration for most people. But retired Madison pastor Dick Pritchard would be satisfied with nothing less than some stimulating conversation, followed by cake and coffee. Pritchard, a Madison activist since the Civil Rights era of the 1960’s, sponsored a symposium on Christians and culture Sunday afternoon.Pritchard has been involved in public dialogue on Christians and culture longer than perhaps anyone else living in Madison. He said that he once debated Capital Times founder William Evjue over whether the United States was a Christian nation.Joining in the conversation with pastor Pritchard were Julaine…
Pete Hammond was probably better known nationally than he was here in the Madison area, where he lived for most of the past 25 years. He retired in 2007 following a 41-year career with Madison-based InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. He died in his home on December 29, 2008. A large crowd attended the memorial service held yesterday at Christ Presbyterian Church.Alec Hill, the president of InterVarsity, noted that although Pete was a golfer, he didn’t keep score. That exemplified his personal relationships with others. "He did not expect reciprocity," he said, adding "We loved his passion for Jesus."
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP)–With four older children, Pam Tebow, whose father was an Army colonel, was used to setting boundaries, issuing orders and choosing her battles by the time "Timmy" was born in 1987.No worries, though. Tim Tebow, the 21-year-old University of Florida quarterback and the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy, has been "obedient and teachable and kind," according to his mom.The proud mom and other members of the Tebow clan were in Miami’s Dolphin Stadium Thursday night to watch the Gators win their second national championship in three years. Tebow threw two touchdown passes and was named the…
Madison firefighters and employees of Madison Gas & Electric are investigating the cause of a Thursday morning explosion at God’s House of Hope, a church located at the corner of Jenifer and Ingersoll streets in Madison.Read more of this story.
(This is a follow up to: Protest scheduled Jan. 8 in response to late-abortion plan posted on January 7, 2009) Abortion proposal protest Protesters were out this morning in Madison, demonstrating against the UW hospital’s plan to offer second trimester abortions. The group of about 60 people protested peacefully outside the Madison Surgery Center on Park Street, where the abortions would be performed. Read more >> Group Rallies Against UW’s Plan To Perform Abortions Protesters came out Thursday morning to voice their opposition against the University of Wisconsin and Meriter Hospital after they announced plans this week to perform…
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–No Christians in Gaza have been injured despite living in hard-hit areas, a Baptist pastor there reported to Baptist Press late in the afternoon Jan. 6.News staff at Christianity Today, meanwhile, were reporting three Christians have died since the hostilities began in Gaza Dec. 27 but Baptist Press has not yet independently confirmed the circumstances of those deaths. One death was attributed to a heart attack but no supporting information was provided about the deaths of the other two individuals named.Read more of this story. Broadcasting Prayers of Peace for the Middle East – ASSIST NEWS SERVICE
MADISON — In response to plans by University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics (UWHC) to perform second-trimester abortions, all are invited to a prayer and protest rally outside the Madison Surgery Center, 1 S. Park St., Madison, at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 8.Read more of this story.
An Elm Grove congregation is the first in Wisconsin to announce it will split from the Episcopal Church in the United States to align with a more conservative, rival province being formed in North America.Wednesday’s announcement by St. Edmund’s Episcopal Church comes less than a month after a group of breakaway dioceses and parishes announced that they were forming a new, more theologically conservative North American province. Those churches have been angered by the liberal views of the U.S. Episcopalian and Canadian Anglican churches.Read more of this story.
Mobile, Ala. — Upstairs in the Mobile Museum of Art, there’s a Bible on display — a majestic hand-drawn edition a decade in the making, and not yet finished. Presented as a work of modern art, its oversized pages are filled with ornate calligraphy and rich illustration, shot through with gold and silver leaf.Downstairs, in the museum foyer, another Bible lies open — this one so homespun as to be homely. An earnest young couple is carting it cross-country in an RV with a bobble-head Jesus on the dash, asking tens of thousands of ordinary Americans to each hand-write one…
Pete Hammond exemplified InterVarsity’s commitment to campus ministry in creative and unique ways. We are grieved at his passing but thankful that his ministry touched and enriched so many lives. Pete Hammond died last week at his home in Madison, at the age of 72.Read more of this story.