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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.
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.