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Human trafficking, also known as modern-day slavery, is the second largest and fastest growing crime industry in the world after drug trafficking. Currently there are 27 million people estimated to be slaves worldwide, including some in Wisconsin. That total is ten times the number of slaves trafficked during the trans-Atlantic slave trade of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. A presentation on human trafficking hosted by Slave Free Madison in partnership with the Sequoya Branch Library, drew over 50 participants last night, from a wide array of Madison-area non-government organizations, concerned citizens and local government.
Most mornings, after the gavel is struck in the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill, a prayer is offered in that most secular body — a practice that goes back to the founding fathers at the Continental Congress in 1774.Chaplain Barry C. Black delivers the prayer, offering up some of the first words heard each day in the chamber.
Vienna, VA. – She is persuasive, influential and does a lot of good, but Christians should be careful when Oprah speaks about spirituality, warned two apologists who recently co-authored a book on the subject.To a crowd of more than 1,500 people at McLean Bible Church outside of Washington, D.C,. on Friday evening, renowned apologist Josh McDowell and up-and-coming apologist Dave Sterrett explained the danger of adopting Oprah’s spiritual teachings from a Christian perspective.
It has become part of the sports landscape. Athletes congregate on the field after a game to pray or offer a sound bite thanking a higher power.It rarely makes the news.Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner understands this. The man who led this organization to its first home playoff game since 1947 knows that discussion about resurrections comes only in the context of career revivals and that tape recorders shut off when faith references start up.
Perhaps everyone by now has at least heard of Max McLean’s production of "Screwtape," the famous play about the letters of a senior devil (Screwtape) to Wormwood, a junior tempter. I am one of 75,000 people who have seen the 90-minute play. In an era when many movie studios are nervous about filming anything too overtly Christian, here’s a stage production that keeps drawing them in.
Makoto Fujimura will bring his lessons on art and the intersection of ideas to Madison in early February at two forums hosted by Geneva Campus Church (1127 University Ave.). Fujimura’s “Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture” was published in February 2009, a collection of essays written between 2001 and 2008 that reflect on his faith and artistic life as a New Yorker living two blocks from Ground Zero.
REVIEWHow do you review the Word of God?Very carefully. And that’s the way everyone who sees the Milwaukee Public Museum’s astonishing new exhibit, "Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible," should take in the exhibit, opening Friday.This is the largest temporary exhibit the museum has ever produced itself, with more than 200 artifacts – and, yes, the scope is biblical.
In the days leading up to the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Americans have shown up in droves at rallies across the country in a show of solidarity against abortion.Today marks the 37th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Pro-lifers, who assert that life begins at conception, say this year’s collective efforts are even more significant than ever as Congress considers health care reform legislation that could allow taxpayer dollars to cover abortions. Conservatives and Christian groups warn that passage of a bill with abortion coverage would be the greatest expansion of government-backed abortion since Roe…
Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family and an influential voice for Christian conservatives, is about to depart from the organization he created and is starting a radio program that will give him greater leeway to hold forth on politics.Beginning in March, Dr. Dobson, 73, will co-host the radio show with his son, Ryan, 39, a tattooed surfer and skateboarder who wrote a book called “Be Intolerant” and who has honed an identity preaching to youths.
Five lines of ancient script on a broken piece of pottery, first spotted by a 17-year-old excavation volunteer in the summer of 2008, have been proclaimed as one of the oldest known examples of Hebrew writing. An Israeli historian believes they also testify to the formation of the kingdom of Israel and the writing of Hebrew Scriptures.The ostracon (a piece of pottery with writing on it, the ancient equivalent of note paper) was found at Khirbet Qeiyafa, the 3,000-year-old ruins of a city on a ridge above the Valley of Elah. The ruins overlook the valley where the Bible says…