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The Race to Equity report paints a stark reality of educational disparities among ethnic groups in greater Madison. This report has generated much problem-solving discussion among a cross section of leadership within the city. Madison Christian Schools (West and East Campuses) is in a unique position to respond to this real crisis. The Madison Christian Giving Fund has partnered with MCS in helping solve this problem by granting $5000 to support scholarships for local underprivileged students.
Bob Stine has been pastor at Midvale Baptist Church since August 2007, but his ministry goes far beyond the sermon, the pews, and the word of God. In 2008, he started a diverse, low-cost basketball program, Kids Best, for kids in kindergarten through fifth grade. He recently added a middle school program. It attracts kids not only from the West Side of Madison, but from across town, and from Middleton and McFarland as well. The current session ends March 12.
On Monday, March 14, 2016, one month from today, journalists and student journalists from around Wisconsin and across the country will be in the capital city to find out how to improve reporting on religion. The conference is: “Reporting on Religion: Media, Belief, and Public Life.” It’s presented by The University of Wisconsin–Madison Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, and Upper|House (an initiative of the Stephen & Laurel Brown Foundation), in collaboration with the UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Madison Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Most parents know how scary high school years can be. An “anything goes” culture coupled with intense peer pressure can pull impressionable kids away from the values they are taught, sometimes with disastrous consequences. In 2014 five Middleton High School moms began praying together for their kids: for God’s protection, for their faith to withstand the pressures of their high school years, and for their witness. When the kids were asked, “what do your friends think about what you believe?” they responded, “I don’t think they know what we believe.”
Shelly Cai was 18 years old when she left the southern Chinese metropolis of Nanjing to enroll in the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In August 2010, after a 13-hour flight from Shanghai to Chicago and a three-hour bus ride, Cai finally arrived in Madison, where a distant cousin picked her up. During orientation, Cai found herself jet lagged, struggling to make sense of all the English.
Jim Lundgren, interim president of Madison-based InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, is pleased to announce that Alec Hill returned to work on February 1st in a new role — president emeritus. The return comes fifteen years to the day since Alec was first announced as president in 2001. Alec announced his decision to leave office last May in order to begin cancer treatments in Seattle.
On International Women’s Day, one month from today, Madison’s David Lippiatt plans to be on top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. He’s leading a group of climbers with his long-time friend and former colleague Belinda Bauman, the founder of One Million Thumbprints, a campaign to end gender violence in the war zones of South Sudan, Syria/Iraq, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lippiatt is the director of Madison-based NGO We International. He founded We International in 2007 “to serve the most vulnerable in developing countries through economic development, advocacy, anti-trafficking efforts, and peace-building.” A couple of decades earlier, Lippiatt…
A new sign has gone up at Bethany Evangelical Free Church, 301 Riverside Drive, showcasing the unique congregations that call Bethany home. The sign announces services in four different languages.
Bishop Hee Soo Jung of the Wisconsin Conference of The United Methodist Church announces the appointment of The Rev. Dr. Mark A. Fowler to become the Senior Pastor at First United Methodist Church in Madison, Wisconsin, effective July 1, 2016. Fowler, who is currently serving as the Murray H. Leiffer associate professor of congregational leadership at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston IL, will retain his responsibilities at the seminary until June 30, 2016.
I’ll admit it. Freely. When I was younger —I mean much younger — I thought that Betamax video cassette recorders were the bee’s knees. They were constructed better than any other video recorders, the sound quality was better, and the picture quality was superior. At one point, Sony, the producer of Beta video cassette recorders, had 100 percent of the video recorder market. Well, it doesn’t take a historian to know what happened with Beta. Market forces and better, cheaper, more-efficient technology made Beta obsolete in what felt like three-and-a-half months. I don’t mention Beta to wax nostalgic about my…