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When Andrea Herrera started working as a social worker at Chavez Elementary School on Madison’s southwest side, it did not take her long to notice that one group of students was geographically and economically isolated from the school. When Redeemer City Church started holding Sunday worship services at Chavez and looking at ways to serve the school, it did not take long for church leaders to notice the same thing.
Even on an overcast fall afternoon, the nearly 300,000 tiles that make up the mosaic on the new Catholic student center at UW-Madison were shimmering as freshman Casey Gilinson walked by. The two-story mosaic — like the new $30 million Saint Paul University Catholic Center itself, clad in brick and stone and topped by a copper dome — is a striking new addition at the most prominent gateway to UW-Madison, and stands out next to its drab, concrete campus neighbors.
A faith-based South Side Madison community development organization will celebrate 25 years of helping to grow leadership in Madison’s African-American community. The Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership and Development will host a free anniversary event Nov. 3 at Overture Center. The event will include dessert, a presentation by Nehemiah’s founder and president, the Rev. Alex Gee, live music, dancing, a chance to look back at the group’s work over the years with current and former staff members, donors and program participants and a look at the organization’s future efforts.
This summer, after a string of shootings in the city, Sheray Wallace, founder of Meadowood Neighborhood Connectors, and local television show Club TNT organized a march on Madison’s west side as a demonstration of neighborhood unity. The “Walk Against Violence, Save the Children March” started at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on the corner of Raymond Road and Whitney Way and ended at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church on McKee Boulevard, just north of Raymond. Other area churches helped make the march possible, Wallace said. “The congregations came out in numbers,” Wallace said. “And it was just a beautiful thing.”
The documents of antiquity, ancient scrolls, pose all sorts of challenges for scholars trying to read them. This is especially true for the most fragile documents, those seared but not completely destroyed by fire, sometimes thousands of years ago. But now scholars have a new resource to non-invasively read ancient scrolls without unrolling them and possibly damaging or destroying the brittle texts that provide a direct window to human experience in the ancient world. The technology, developed by University of Kentucky computer science Professor and UW-Madison alumnus Brent Seales, was dramatically unveiled in 2015 when the Israeli Antiquities Authority revealed…
The MOM Board of Directors welcomes Ellen Carlson as the new Executive Director of Middleton Outreach Ministry. MOM is a non-profit, community effort dedicated to preventing homelessness and ending hunger for families throughout west Madison, Middleton, and Cross Plains.
Bob Lenz, Lifest organizer, Christian author and internationally acclaimed speaker finally spoke in Madison. Lenz speaks to public and private schools all over the world promoting the Dignity Revolution, Standing Up for the Value of Every Person. But until October 11th, not in Madison.
It was hardly the first time there has been a lively discussion of the relationship between belief in God and the lessons of science on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. But it may have been of the most civil and engaging discussions before one of the largest audiences. The official title was “Is there Truth Beyond Science?” The setting was Shannon Hall of the Memorial Union Theater, with virtually all of the 1,165 seats were filled, mostly with students. The sponsors ranged from a variety of student organizations like Badger Catholic to Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics @ UW-Madison as well…
Once again, a federal judge has declared that the longstanding clergy housing allowance violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment. Offered only to “ministers of the gospel,” the 60-year-old tax break excludes the rental value of a home from the taxable income of US clergy. It’s the “most important tax benefit available to ministers,” according to GuideStone Financial Resources. It’s also the biggest: American ministers currently avail themselves of the tax break to the tune of $800 million a year, according to the latest estimate by the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation. Wisconsin district judge Barbara Crabb first ruled…
The first alarm goes off at 1:30am for Brandon Taylor, morning news anchor at WKOW TV’s Wake Up Wisconsin. In the studio by 3:00am and on the air by 4:30am. The morning is fast paced and he’s off the air at 9:00am. But sometimes it’s too faced paced. Like last Monday, as the reports from the Las Vegas shooting kept getting worse and worse through the morning. He didn’t get a chance to process the tragedy until he caught his breath at 11:30am. “One of the reasons that I love doing the morning show is because it’s usually light news,”…