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MILTON, Wis. – As a new twist on Little Free Libraries, Hope Lutheran Church in Milton has started a Little Free Pantry. Pastor Garrett Struessel said the idea came from a church in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Instead of books, the pantry is filled with supplies like food, toiletries and cleaning products.
Growing up, the Lin family Thanksgiving tradition was simple: my brother and I playing football with church youth group friends, buying last-minute groceries, assisting mom and dad with cooking and cleaning, and then heading to the potluck dinner at our Taiwanese Church. The dinner always included one small symbolic turkey along with 99 other delicious Chinese dishes. It was around Thanksgiving that I observed one interesting thing about my parents. They never said “Thank you” very much, that weekend or any weekend for that matter. They never expressed it to the other cooks in the church kitchen or to the…
Far too often, the Black Christian students’ response to what’s happening in this country and on their campus, have been overlooked. As a staff member on UW-Madison campus with the Impact Movement, a ministry that serves students of African Descent, I have come to realize that many Black Christian students encounter and struggle with this reality differently than students who are not of the Christian faith. After it was announced that Donald Trump has been elected as the 45th president of the United States of America, I was flooded by messages from my students and peers. A leader in the…
The idea came from an Immanuel Mennonite church in Harrisonburg, Virginia, that designed the sign for its own congregation after an uptick in racist incidents across the country post-election. After several incidents targeting minorities in Madison in the last two weeks, Madison pastor Michael Winnowski decided to promote the signs locally. The sign reads: “No matter where you are from, we’re glad you’re our neighbor” in English, Spanish and Arabic.
Matthew McCormick was administering a test to a social studies class at Monona Grove High School earlier this fall when, upon reviewing the test questions, he came across one that stirred his conscience. The question asked students to complete the sentence, “Gender is defined by _____.” The correct response, according to the answer key was “culture.” But, McCormick, a Catholic, didn’t believe it.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican legislator has been holding weekly Bible study sessions for lawmakers in his state Capitol office for the past three years, raising questions again about where the line between church and state lies in the building. Administrative rules require state employees to use state buildings only for official work. Critics say the meetings are inappropriate, even though praying before legislative session days and religious displays in the Capitol rotunda have been upheld as legal.
Two Catholic students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire have sued the university after being denied credit toward mandatory community service for the time they spent teaching their religion at a local parish. Their attorney, from the Gerogia-based group Alliance Defending Freedom, says the policy amounts to an unconstitutional “animosity toward and discrimination against religion.”
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship officially began its campus ministry in the United States on November 14, 1941, the day the ministry was incorporated. Campus fellowships had already been active at several U.S. colleges for a few years, however. In 1941 InterVarsity’s founder, Stacey Woods, directed a three-person staff, operating out of a Chicago office that was shared with the Christian Workers Foundation. Today, 75 years later, InterVarsity’s national office is in Madison, Wisconsin, and staff workers and volunteers across the U.S. total more than 2,000. InterVarsity has 1,011 chapters on 667 U.S. college campuses, working with more than 40,000 core students…
“Labels matter. So do definitions. Evangelicals are best defined by their beliefs,” says Ed Stetzer on his blog at Christianity Today.
The SSM Health Fall Gospel Fest, originally set to take place this Saturday at Blackhawk Church, has been rescheduled for Saturday, December 10 at High Point Church in Madison.