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Even though Pat Boone has sold over 45 million albums, enjoyed 38 Top 40 hits and starred in more than 12 Hollywood movies and a hit TV show during his ongoing 55-year career, there’s one song that his Jewish fans keeps wanting to hear from him – the “Theme to Exodus.”And as it turns out, it’s not only Jews, but also Christian supporters of Israel who are smitten with the “second Jewish national anthem,” as the 75-year-old Boone good-naturedly calls the song which dramatically intones, “This land is mine, God gave this land to me.”
Sports journalists are reluctant to tackle faith on the field.Tim Tebow may steal the Super Bowl spotlight by appearing in an antiabortion TV commercial with his mother, Pam, but his faith is kept on the sidelines. Most reporters writing about the ad neglected to say that his mother’s faith was the reason she did not abort him when doctors warned he could be born severely disabled in 1987. Perhaps the sportswriters assumed that most people know about the family’s Christian beliefs. The former quarterback for the Florida Gators paints Bible verses under his eyes and is vocal about saving himself…
Just over one year has passed since it was first reported that UW Health and Meriter Hospital were planning on performing late-term abortions at the Madison Surgery Center at 1 S. Park St. But no abortions have been performed yet, news that encouraged the approximately 500 men, women and children who turned out for yesterday’s second annual Defend Life Rally on the University of Wisconsin Library Mall.The crowd listened to almost a dozen speakers, endured the haranguing of a small group of loud abortion supporters, and then marched from State Street to Regent Street for a vigil in front of…
For a painter of abstract expressionism, Makoto Fujimura has some very concrete ideas on the role of Christians as stewards of culture. Fujimura was in Madison this week for Geneva Forum, a series of lectures and public appearances sponsored by Geneva Campus Church. Last night he spoke on "Prodigal Art: Restoring Health to the Cultural Ecosystem," to a crowd of about 200 gathered in the Alumni Lounge of the Pyle Center on the University of Wisconsin campus.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (BP)–With Super Bowl XLIV only a few days away, the lights are on early here at the Indianapolis Colts’ hotel conference room, with more than a half dozen coaches huddled together. But the Colts’ coaches, including head man Jim Caldwell, weren’t working on a secret plan to slow down the high flying New Orleans Saints. Rather, it was the coaches’ weekly Bible study, and not even a chance for NFL supremacy was going to keep them from meeting.
COMMENTARY"Cool! Your church has funerals," a friend recently said after I told him about attending one for a fellow parishioner at my church.My friend attends one of those churches that meet in a Cineplex. Ever since he first told me about his theater church, I had wondered about the logistics of baptisms, weddings, and funerals.It turns out that the entire membership of his congregation ranges in age from late teens to late 20s. Baptisms are rare and handled at other venues. As far as he knows, they’ve never had a funeral. And when people get married, they rent out traditional…
BOOK REVIEWThere was a time when, after a busy weekend of church activities, I would be so thoroughly over-stimulated that I’d have to go straight to bed when I got home. My extroverted husband would graciously leave me alone and instruct our children to do the same. Those days seem long ago and far away. So little angst remains about my own introverted nature that I wondered if Adam S. McHugh’s new book, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture (InterVarsity Press), was even necessary. After all, I had figured things out for myself.But then I…
The pictures and stories that continue to pour out of Haiti show a nation that will take months and even years to rebuild. For the Duluth’s NewsCenter weekend anchor Julie Pearce, who has spent the last four years of her life telling stories, those pictures were enough to make a life changing decision.“I’d sit there and produce the show and read the headlines and you know download the stories and sit there and read the headlines to the audience and it just broke my heart knowing that there’s something that I can actually do, that I actually have the skills…
(RNS) Having survived a devastating earthquake during a 10-day mission trip to Haiti, Freedom Gassoway now savors every minute she spends at home with her family in Beaverton, Ore. But for this 33-year-old mother of two, some of life has also lost its sweetness. Meals no longer taste good, she said, since she’s always thinking about the thousands of homeless and hungry people in Haiti. Her closet seems to have “too many clothes,” she said, and she feels a duty—by virtue of her survival—to share Haiti’s suffering with other Americans.
If church attendance is one measure of a man’s faith, then President Obama may appear to have lost some of his. The first family, once regular churchgoers, have publicly attended services in Washington just three times in the past year, by ABC News’ count, even bypassing the pews on Christmas Day.But sources familiar with the president’s personal life say Obama remains a faithful Christian while in the White House, practicing his beliefs regularly in private with family and the aid of his BlackBerry.