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Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) declared victory in a Christmas music case following a public outcry against a Wisconsin school board’s alleged attempt to limit religious songs in school performances. The Master Singers, Wausau West High School’s elite choir, which formed the center of the debate, resumed practice on Tuesday.
Two weeks ago the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families released a report called “Race to Equity.” In blunt terms, the Madison area has a race problem. The report in the Wisconsin State Journal detailed “jarring findings.” During recent political campaigns we learned that half of all black high school students don’t graduate on time, a harsh indictment of Madison schools. This compares with 16 percent of white children.But the newspaper story offered other statistics even more harsh:
(Madison, WI) — InterVarsity Christian Fellowship leads a list of Wisconsin nonprofits compiled by a Texas agency that assembled a state by state nonprofit comparison, measured by total revenue. The revenue figures were taken from GuideStar, a nonprofit monitoring organization. InterVarsity has been located in Madison, Wisconsin, for 44 of its 72 years, moving to Madison from Chicago in 1969.
Deadraiser,” is the film Johnny Clark is bringing to Madison this week. It’s a documentary and consists in part of interviews with people who believe they have raised others from the dead. Clark, 28, is a 2003 graduate of Madison La Follette High School. He moved to Madison as a young boy in 1992, with his parents, John and Julie Clark, pastors at what is now the Evangel Life Center on Femrite Drive.
Growing up as the daughter of a Lutheran pastor in Minnesota, Mary Stumme Froiland frequently was told by her father that someday she too could become a pastor. That was before women could be ordained in the American Lutheran Church. That changed when Froiland was 12 years old, and her father had another message for her.
The Madison Catholic Diocese has reached a tentative agreement with a developer to vacate its headquarters at the Bishop O’Connor Catholic Pastoral Center on the city’s Far West Side and turn the former seminary into rental housing. Under the plan, the diocese will lease the building for 60 years to developer Gary Gorman, whose company will renovate the 232,000-square-foot structure and create 100 to 150 apartments. The diocese will retain ownership of the property.
On a recent Sunday at First United Methodist Church, Seth Schroerlucke gathered a group of 16 parents in a basement room. Nearby, separated by a thin partition, their teenage kids played ice-breaker games. It was time to talk about sex.
If you’re waiting for God to show you a sign, Harold Scott has a few he wants you to see. The 72-year-old Green Bay truck driver pays for billboard space along some of Wisconsin’s major thoroughfares to spread Christian messages to motorists.
(Former Madison resident Belinda Bauman, whose husband Stephan is the president of World Relief, writes of her trip to Congolese refugee camps. Her report was picked up by The Daily Beast.) My journey into the heart of war-torn Eastern Congo began last summer at the suggestion of a trusted friend. To my husband’s credit, he whole-heartedly supported the idea of his wife traveling into a war zone. This, after all, is the man who delivered my Mother’s Day breakfast-in-bed with reading material titled “Congo: The worst place in the world to be a mother”. And I love him for that;…