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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;…
Unfortunately, there are countless Mikkos—Madisonians who go to bed hungry. And it’s getting worse. You can see it in the dramatic spike in the number of kids eligible for free or reduced-price meals in schools, the burgeoning movement to define poverty as a childhood disease and the numbers of older adults, especially women, relying on food pantries. Read more of this story.
A flurry of bills on reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptive options, passed the Republican-controlled Wisconsin state Legislature over the past three years. More are expected to pass before the end of the year. Barbara Lyons, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life, said the pro-life organization is expecting Assembly Bills 216 and 217 to be taken up and passed by the Senate sometime this fall.
Jasmine Warren wept as she crossed the threshold of her new home. She was being given a fresh start through The Road Home Dane County, a nonprofit organization that is trying many new things toa ddress homelessness. Read more of this story.
Children who attend Catholic schools in the Madison Catholic Diocese will no longer be taking field trips to the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery because the facility on the UW-Madison campus conducts research using embryonic stem cells. The diocese announced its decision in a letter Thursday to principals and priests, saying the research runs counter to Catholic teaching on the sacredness of human life.
A pastor who was threatened with arrest for distributing Bibles at a Harley-Davidson festival in Greenfield, Wis., was permitted to hand them out once again after city officials received a letter from Alliance Defending Freedom notifying them of the pastor’s First Amendment rights.
(RNS) Of the 10 holidays recognized by the federal government, the future status of two – Labor Day and Christmas – may be short-lived. And, perhaps surprisingly, for the same reason: religion. Read more of this commentary. Paul Greenberg Commentary: “The Hebrew word for labor and worship are the same: avodah.”
It’s hard to describe the feeling when we learn of another abortion decrease! Our staff, board and volunteers are filled with joy to know that our work results in life for hundreds of unborn babies. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services Induced Abortion Report for 2012 shows a 4.4% decrease in Wisconsin abortions. What fantastic news for babies and their mothers who choose life for them!