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A dreary Sunday afternoon was made brighter for some Madison residents as city officials worked to mitigate unpaid citations. During the “Unpaid Ticket Resolution Day,” people with past-due fees for parking, traffic and municipal ordinance violations received help to make the payments more manageable through actions such as a payment plan, reduced fines or community service.
The Madison Christian Giving fund is supporting the Madison Area Lutheran Council (MALC) Jail Ministry in 2016. The Jail Ministry, a ministry of presence in the Dane County Jail, serves the spiritual needs of the men and women who are incarcerated, their families and communities. Sixty to eighty percent of the inmates have substance abuse issues while another 20% have mental health challenges. The Jail Ministry employs two chaplains who function as the pastors of the nearly 800 men and women incarcerated in the jail each day.
If you’re like me, you cringe when you hear that Hollywood is making a Bible movie. What could possibly go wrong? As we all know by now, plenty. So you can imagine the challenge I faced when I was first approached about adapting an Anne Rice novel into a movie about what Jesus’ life might have been like during the years in which the Bible is silent. I was scared about the prospect but also fascinated-you see even though I was born and raised in the Midwest (go Badgers!).
About 100 Madison pastors and business leaders gathered for breakfast at The Upper|House on Thursday, March 3, 2016, to consider lessons from the Bible on how to succeed in the work world.As a follow-up to a similar meeting last November attendees were challenged with lessons from the life of the biblical Joseph, whose career path from shepherd to second-in-charge for the whole country of Egypt included periods of slavery and time in prison.
The Pew Research Center has ranked all 50 states in four categories of religious observance, and Wisconsin is near the bottom. In fact, outside of five New England states, Wisconsin is the least religious state in the country (tied with Washington and Alaska).
The day I received my cancer diagnosis was harrowing. But what followed—learning that the only possible remedy was a risky bone marrow transplant—was even more distressing. Months after the transplant was completed, I learned from a medical blog that I had become a chimera.
The Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership is launching a new gospel centered outreach and discipleship event for twenty five 5th through 8th graders who are participants in the Academic Center for Excellence (ACE) program. ACE primarily serves children from low-income, minority families, the majority of whom are African-American. Almost all of the children who participate in ACE receive free or reduced fee lunch at school. ACE’s approach, building healthy relationships with children and their families, as been successful because they not only concentrate on the key areas of literacy and math, but directly address the critically important issues of identity,…
Reverend Alex Gee was thrust into the public spotlight in 2013 when, in response to the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families’ not-very-flattering Race to Equity report, he penned a column titled “Justified Anger.” That column spawned a conversation which became a movement. Gee now leads the Justified Anger Coalition as a non-profit organization, in addition to running Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development and serving as pastor at Fountain of LIfe Church in Madison, where he has served for more than 28 years.
MADISON, Wis. — A Madison man is getting ready to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro for a cause. It’s all to raise awareness for gender-based violence in war-torn countries. “Congo is considered one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman,” David Lippiatt, WE International founder and CEO, says.
Justified Anger, the coalition of African-American leaders working to address racial disparities in Dane County, is adding a new director of program growth and community engagement thanks to a unique agreement with a local company. TDS Telecom is loaning one of its executives, Patrick Yates, on a part-time basis, to “manage oversight of the day-to-day operations of Justified Anger,” according to a press release. Under the new arrangement, Yates will spend 60 percent of his time, or three days a week, working with Justified Anger and 40 percent of his time with TDS. He started working with the group on…