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“This is a 2007 Ford cargo van. It’s also my home,” said Matt Cook. 28-year-old Matt Cook lives in a van– not because he has to but because he wants to. “There’s a lot of things in my life, possessions that don’t lend a lot of meaning. They’re just stuff.”
Barely known until now, Lighthouse Christian School hopes its voucher participation leads to the kind of growth it has long desired. Read more of this story.
It was a mere 40 miles between Call to Action’s national conference in downtown Milwaukee and the Women of Christ gathering in West Bend on Saturday. But, theologically, the two events might well have been on different planets.
The Winter Jam Christian music tour begins this week and will arrive in Madison but not until after the end of winter. The rock band Newsboys is headlining the tour, along with hiphop/rapper LeCrae, and 2012 American Idol finalist Colton Dixon. Evangelist Nick Hall is featured speaker.
Can the ability to forgive help cancer patients die a good death? That was the intriguing question Robert Enright, a professor of educational psychology at UW-Madison, brought to oncologists, nurses, social workers and others at a recent symposium at Monona Terrace. Science says the answer is yes, Enright told those of us in attendance. Read more of this story.
The city of Jerusalem is one of the most excavated places on earth, and also one of the most complicated, according to Israeli archaeologist Gabi Barkay. Barkay has been coming to Madison to speak to the Madison Biblical Archaeology Society for 30 years or more and always brings an insightful and authoritative report on what’s happening in Biblical Archaeology.
MILWAUKEE – Someone stole the Sunday collection box at an east side Milwaukee church, and now they’re out thousands of dollars. For hundreds of people, Brew City Church is a safe haven. But on a now empty table, there once sat an offering box — a place to put cash, coins, whatever you could spare. Sunday, that changed.
Just up the hill from my house in Monona lies one of the small remaining number of indian mounds in the Madison area. Early settlers counted dozens, if not hundreds of mounds in the Madison area. Some can still be found in the arboretum, on the UW campus, and here and there around the city. I was surprised to learn a number of years ago that Jerusalem also has mounds. At least according to archaeologist Gabriel Barkay, who will be visiting Madison this weekend.
“Radical Jesus” is scheduled to be published Oct. 31 by Herald Press, an arm of the Mennonite Church USA. It is a comic book, or graphic novel, and author Paul Buhle says it is aimed at people ages 15-30.
Religion has always been a part of Jackson’s life, but his faith reached a new level this summer. “My whole mindset on life has just changed,” he said. “Just everything. I’m just so blessed and thankful to have God in my life.