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Christine Hodge was honored with the Rotary Club of Madison’s 2015 Manfred Swarsensky Humanitarian Service Award on November 11 at its weekly meeting at the Inn on the Park. Hodge was nominated by Dawn Crim. Hodge came to Madison from Arkansas in 1971, a single mother with her three children. The people of the historically black Mt. Zion Baptist Church on Madison’s south side quickly embraced her and her family — a gesture that she reciprocated later in life.
MADISON, Wis. — The Spring Green Department says the Cornerstone Church is a total loss, following an early morning fire Saturday. Authorities say someone called 911 to report a fire at the church located at 210 North Lexington Street in the Village of Spring Green around 2:08 a.m. Officials say that when first responders arrived, the structure was fully-engulfed.
As the seventh film in the popular science-fiction series “Star Wars” is set to premiere next month, First United Presbyterian Church in DePere is preparing to host an event weeks earlier to explore what’s common between Christianity and the film. Atheists are welcome, the church says. The De Pere church will host “Star Wars: Faith & The Force” on Nov. 14, about a month before “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” premieres Dec. 18, according to the church’s website. Read more of this story.
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Flooding, snowstorms, a flu outbreak, even a fire — any of those might have slowed a group of Wisconsin nuns who say none of it has kept their order from praying nonstop for hundreds of thousands of people over the last 137 years. The La Crosse-based Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration claim to have been praying night and day for the ill and the suffering longer than anyone in the United States — since 11 a.m. on Aug. 1, 1878.
Jacky Meremable is a man with his feet planted in two very, very different places. One foot is planted firmly in the tropical soil of his native Haiti. The other is buried deep in the cold and sometimes snowy plains of Madison, Wisconsin.
Would I ever read it? Another volume from a natural history book club had arrived in the mail. Month after month they came, but I was so engaged in doing natural history that I read none of them. A few decades later, with more time to spare in my Wisconsin home on peaceful Waubesa Wetlands, I finally picked the volume off the shelf and began to read John Muir. As I turned the pages, I soon found myself caught up in a psalmic crescendo. It was not only Muir’s lyrical writing but also the familiar soundtrack playing in the background.…
Brent Seales studied robotic navigation as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin—Madison (UW). He was also part of an InterVarsity Bible study with other graduate students. He could not have imagined that his computer science skills would someday help decipher a text of Scripture so ancient that only the Dead Sea Scrolls are older.
On the fourth Saturday of each month, Christ Presbyterian Church on Madison’s Near East Side opens its kitchen to students and scholars who are part of the church’s international outreach program. They cook a meal from their homeland for church members, outreach program volunteers and friends. The end result is an international selection of food likely unmatched in any restaurant in Madison.
Matthew and Johanna LaFond loaded their five daughters into a vehicle Thursday and drove eight hours to Madison from their home near Fargo, North Dakota, all because of an 11-year-old girl who died more than a century ago. The LaFonds were among the thousands who came Friday to view the remains of St. Maria Goretti, the youngest canonized saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
The future of interreligious dialogue is being discussed this week in Madison. A conference sponsored by the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at the University of Wisconsin has drawn scholars from across the country for three days of … interreligious dialogue.