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This story stretches from a long ago Madison clothing store to this week’s finale of “Dancing with the Stars,” and if you think that’s a reach, you don’t have the proper faith in the mustard seed.
Julaine Appling may be the most important social conservative in the state. The head of Wisconsin Family Action, a group dedicated to “advancing Judeo-Christian principles and values,” Appling, 60, was the face of the successful campaign six years ago to amend the Wisconsin Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
Jeff Allen grew up an atheist on Chicago’s South Side and often took the Lord’s name in vain during the years he spent working nightclubs as a comedian. At 40, he became a born-again Christian, a switch that could have killed his career. “It’s not an embraced lifestyle in Hollywood,” Allen, now 55, said by phone last week from his home in Nashville. Allen chose to begin marketing himself as a Christian comedian. He’s since appeared at an inaugural gala for President George W. Bush and at the National Prayer Breakfast — twice! A majority of his gigs are in…
When the Supreme Court ruled that a Christian student group could only be recognized at a small public law school if it accepted non-Christians and gays as potential leaders, some lawyers and campus advocates grew nervous. While the 5-4 decision in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez was primarily aimed at public colleges and universities, some conservatives say the decision has upended university religious life, with both public and private schools reconsidering nondiscrimination rules. Now, nearly two years after the decision involving the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law, the case is causing strife across U.S. college campuses: Madison-based InterVarsity…
On Thursday, May3, 2012, close to 100 people gathered on the Wisconsin Capitol steps to observe the National Day of Prayer by worshipping and praying. The theme verse for this year was Psalm 33:12, “Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.”
MADISON Wis. — On June 5, the eyes of the country will be on the state of Wisconsin, where voters will decide whether Scott Walker should be recalled as governor of their state. It’s only the third time in American history this has happened to a sitting governor. The vote is expected to be very close. But Walker remains ever confident. “I don’t plan on losing. I’m going to run a campaign to win,” he told CBN News.
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan drew a large crowd of Catholics and well-wishers to Holy Hill on Saturday for a special Mass of Thanksgiving, some arriving as early as 4:30 a.m. to ensure a spot in the historic Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians.
Chuck Colson came to Madison once, that I remember, but probably several more times than that. Hearing the news of his death on Saturday, I recalled that the only time I ever talked with him was at a Prison Fellowship event in Milwaukee, where he was speaking. He always made it a point to visit a prison somewhere on Easter morning. I think Colson was pretty familiar with Wisconsin prisons. In fact the federal prison at Oxford, 60 miles north of Madison, figured prominently in the early history of his Prison Fellowship ministry.
Whether he’s called to testify about faked antiqutities at a sensational trial in Jerusalem, consulted about ancient tomb inscriptions for a TV documentary, or lecture at the Madison Biblical Archaeology Society, Christopher Rollston is in demand for his expertise in ancient writings. In introducing him before his lecture two weeks ago at Edgewood College, MBAS president Jeff Blakely called Rollston, “the leading epigrapher of our generation.” Rollston is a professor of Semitic Studies at Emmanuel Christian Seminary in Johnson City, Tennessee, and the author of the recent book, Writing and Literacy in the World of Ancient Israel. During his Madison…
Almost every night for the last six weeks, Lauren Anderson and several friends have gathered at midnight at Faith Community Bible Church in Madison for an informal, self-led communion service. The UW-Madison students break bread together and pray, believing the intense, focused devotional time elicits tangible results, from deeper personal connections to God to greater unity among believers.