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A federal judge has found unconstitutional a law that lets clergy members avoid paying income taxes on compensation that is designated part of a housing allowance. The decision Friday by U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb could have far-reaching financial ramifications for pastors, who currently can use the untaxed income to pay rental housing costs or the costs of home ownership, including mortgage payments and property taxes.
MADISON — The so-called “drizzle” that had the appearance of a full-blown rain shower wasn’t enough to keep about three dozen people from coming out to mark the end of the 40 Days for Life vigil in Madison. 40 Days for Life is an annual vigil of prayer, fasting, and peacefully witnessing to end abortion. For the past several years, the vigil has taken place outside the Planned Parenthood clinic on Madison’s east side. This year’s vigil ran from September 25 to November 3.
JANESVILLE—Rutting bucks crash through a window or two at this time each year in Wisconsin, but the deer that ended up in the basement of a Janesville church Sunday is one for the books. The six-pointer apparently ran into the side of the building, stumbled and then leaned on a window that was close to the ground, said Andrew Moffitt, youth pastor at Bethel Baptist Church, 3300 Mount Zion Ave. on the city’s east side. The six-pointer apparently ran into the side of the building, stumbled and then leaned on a window that was close to the ground, said Andrew…
“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.