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Do you ever wonder what happens to that $35 you donate every month to a child sponsorship organization? Are you a little skeptical that the money you give is actually going to sponsoring a child instead of a mismanaged nonprofit? If that’s you, I’m with you. A couple years ago, I had convinced myself the money I was giving each month wasn’t actually reaching the child whose picture I had picked out years earlier, so I canceled my sponsorship. It turns out I was wrong, and it hit me like a ton of bricks two years later.
The White House invited four of the country’s top evangelical pastors to attend President Obama’s speech on July 1st calling for immigration reform. The move is a testament both to the importance the issue has come to assume in the evangelical world–including among leaders who have battled Democrats on social issues like abortion and gay marriage–and to the White House’s eagerness to enlist evangelicals to help to counter conservative opposition to the idea of a path to citizenship for illegal immigrations already in the U.S.
Americans see the Fourth of July as the time to celebrate their nation’s freedom. But some say it’s also an excellent time to remember the faith that made them free.
USA (MNN) ― An audio Scripture project is underway for the Native American Hochunk Nation in the Midwest. The Hochunks, also known as the Winnebago, are original residents of the Great Lakes area, particularly Wisconsin and Illinois.
A Christian radio station is canceling its sponsorship of a large Christian music festival in Oshkosh because of one of the speakers.After some Wisconsin church pastors notified the organizers of Lifest about their concerns that Jim Wallis, an author and editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine, was giving the keynote speech on July 9, De Pere-based Christian radio station Q90 FM pulled its sponsorship, which included free advertising and a booth at the July 7-11 event.
In 1993, Bruce Marchiano starred as Jesus in The Visual Bible: Matthew, bringing lightness and humor to a role that many viewers embraced, saying they’d never seen the Lord portrayed in so human a manner in film.Matthew was supposed to be the first of many films covering all 66 books of the Bible, each using dialogue taken verbatim from Scripture. Acts came a year later, also with Marchiano playing Jesus (and James Brolin as Simon Peter).
The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released a new survey this week that looks at the year 2050. Of note to followers of the Belief Blog is 41% of people surveyed believe Jesus is coming back by the year 2050.
NEWS RELEASE(Madison, WI) — InterVarsity Christian Fellowship will likely be impacted by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in the case of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez. The ruling allows Hastings School of Law in San Francisco, a public institution, to refuse recognition to a campus Christian group which excludes from membership students who refuse to sign a statement of faith and adhere to the tenet that sexual activity should not occur outside of marriage between a man and a woman. Hastings policy states that all campus organizations must be open to all students at all levels.
Jim Tebbe has resigned his position as vice president of missions at Madison-based InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and as director of InterVarsity’s Urbana Student Missions Conference. He is in the process of moving to LaHore, Pakistan, where he will become rector (president) of Forman Christian College.
On a recent Sunday morning, about 400 people filed into Madison’s High Point Church for its sole weekend service.It was a good-sized crowd — many churches would be thrilled with such a number — but a comedown from the days when the sanctuary, which seats 950, would be full and the evangelical church would draw nearly 1,300 people between two Sunday services.