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The Rev. Mel Lawrenz, who helped extend the mission of Elmbrook Church in the Town of Brookfield from a single mega-church to a network of 13 congregations across the Milwaukee area, will retire as senior pastor next year to devote more time to Elmbrook’s global missions.Read more of this story.
WASHINGTON—The American bishop who heads the Vatican’s supreme court slammed President Obama Friday (May 8) for pursuing an “anti-life and anti-family agenda” and called the University of Notre Dame’s plans to honor him this month “the greatest scandal.” Archbishop Raymond Burke, who led the archdiocese of St. Louis until he was named prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura by Pope Benedict XVI last June, is known as a forceful critic of public figures who support abortion rights and gay marriage. Read more of this story.White House’s new GLBT language – The Brody File – CBN NewsObama to give…
Religious conservatives are more generous and altruistic than the rest of the country. At least that’s the central thesis of Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism, a 2006 book by Arthur Brooks, who heads the American Enterprise Institute.But Robert Putnam, the author of Bowling Alone and of the forthcoming book American Grace, says Brooks has it only half right.Read more of this story.
Why Tullian Tchividjian, the grandson of the Most Admired Man in America, thinks Christians need to become unfashionable.America’s most fashionable city fits Tullian Tchividjian like a glove. Tchividjian, 36, grew up in South Florida and exudes Miami’s cosmopolitan, comfortable cool. He relishes the region’s multicultural mix and loves to surf when he can find the time in his busy schedule as pastor of New City Church in Coconut Creek. When preaching in the summer heat, Tchividjian leaves the top of his shirt unbuttoned. This is not the kind of town that expects its pastors to suffer in dark suits.Read more…
May 7, 2009 — Although President Obama did not host a National Day of Prayer observance, two African-American ministers prayed outside the White House , even though it led to their arrest. Read more of this story.
COMMENTARY Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota is a congregation of the more conservative Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. It is not unusual these days to find families leaving the ELCA to join the church. However, a new member’s class at Bethlehem Lutheran is an unusual place to find young men from the ELCA’s Luther Seminary in Saint Paul. Pastor of the Church, Robert Krueger, says that he sees more ELCA students coming to his traditional and liturgical congregation. “They all have expressed a disappointment in the direction the ELCA is going, and its general disregard for the Bible…
President Obama is distancing himself from the National Day of Prayer by nixing a formal early morning service and not attending a large Catholic prayer breakfast the next morning. All Mr. Obama will do for the National Day of Prayer, which is Thursday, is sign a proclamation honoring the day, which originated in 1952 when Congress set aside the first Thursday in May for the observance. Read more of this story.No Day of Prayer Event for Obama – The Washington PostPrayer Doesn’t Require Presidential Endorsement – Cal Thomas
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, iReport, video chat, texting, live feed… With so many options for networking, where does one begin? Try all of them.This is the tactic being used right now by a movement called Invisible Children – a small team of people dedicated to end an otherwise-ignored 23-year war in Northern Uganda. Thanks to their moving documentaries, recent Facebook groups and YouTube and Twitter campaigns, their team has exploded in the last few months to an untraceable number of students around the globe.Read more of this story.
In an email sent out to local pastors and religious professionals this past week the leaders of the Dane County Association of Evangelicals announced the group’s demise, calling it a "peaceful end." A group that began as a networking circle of local evangelical pastors 40-some years ago, when evangelical churches first started to grow and have an impact on the Madison area, is no more.
The destruction one nuclear bomb can wreak is more than horrifying, says megachurch pastor Rob Bell of Grandville, Mich. It’s an insult to God."Nuclear weapons are a direct affront to God’s dream of shalom for the world," Bell said Tuesday. "Life is beautiful, and nuclear weapons are ugly."Read more of this story.