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No Line On The Horizon, the latest album from Irish rock band U2, has finally hit music stores in North America after its worldwide debut Friday in Ireland. And according to a theologian in Alabama, it’s “the most thoroughly Christian thing they’ve done yet.” Read more of this story.
(UNDATED) Most days you can find college sophomore Adan Farrah on his laptop checking in with his classmates, looking at photos and updating his personal page on Facebook. For the 19-year-old and many of his friends, the social networking site is something close to an obsession. “I’m on there a total of three hours a day … four hours on weekends,” said Farrah, a native of Monroe, N.J., and now a student at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. But on Ash Wednesday, Farrah decided to quit Facebook cold turkey. No more status updates. No more commenting on photos posted by classmates.…
NEWS RELEASEHabitat for Humanity of Dane County is seeking nine churches to raise funds and provide volunteers to build a home with a family at Northport Commons on the North Side of Madison. The Apostles Build project is expected to start in June or July and will be completed by the end of the year.
The Touched Twice Clinic, a zero-budget community outreach that seeks to provide for the medical, physical, and spiritual needs of Madison’s less fortunate residents, will be offered again this Saturday, March 7, 2009, at Calvary Gospel Church, 5301 Commercial Avenue.As the local Touched Twice website reports, "Madison Touched Twice is a Christ-centered, faith-based organization that strives to bring healing and peace to the community. We act as a catalyst, mobilizing volunteers from local churches to host free clinics that strive to meet the medical, spiritual, and physical needs of the guests – all on a budget of zero dollars and…
When I began volunteering in children’s church many years ago, I did it out of a sense of duty. I figured by giving up one Sunday a month to tend to everyone else’s kids, I’d gain three Sundays in church without my own. I envisioned myself soaking up biblical knowledge on those Sundays, unhampered by continuous whining and numerous trips to the bathroom. Not a bad deal.Over the years I’ve come to realize, however, that for all I planned to learn in "adult" church, some of the most important lessons I’ve gleaned have come as I sat on a tiny…
When Barack Obama’s presidential campaign contacted Ryan Culp last year to ask him to deliver a prayer at an Obama rally in Culp’s native Elkhart, Ind., the high school wellness teacher declined. "I’m a conservative Republican," Culp, who met his wife and raised his two kids in the same evangelical church in which he was brought up, said in a phone interview. "I didn’t want to be perceived to be a supporter of a Democratic campaign."Earlier this month, though, when the White House phoned Culp to say that President Obama was returning to Elkhart—this time for a nationally televised town…
As the Republican Party seeks to regain political control after the last election, some conservatives are calling for a new image. Evangelicals make up about a quarter of the electorate, and about 62 percent of them identify themselves with the Republican Party. David Brooks spoke with Christianity Today in Wheaton, Illinois, about how evangelicals can change their image.Read this interview.James Dobson Steps Down at Focus on the Family – Colorado Springs Gazette
Though a large portion of Americans are cutting back on donations to non-profits amid tough economic conditions, evangelical parachurch ministries have been among those least affected by the cuts, according to a new survey. Least affected negatively, that is.Read more of this story.
Faith-based charities, which provide an enormous array of private social services to the nation’s sick, elderly and poor, are facing unprecedented cutbacks from one of their biggest funders: the government. Read more of this story.
As Hollywood crowned its favorite movies and actors at the Oscars on Sunday, another group is trying to create a rival movie industry. Fed up with sex and violence in mainstream entertainment, conservative Christians are turning out their own films. And they’ve made surprising inroads.Read more of this story. Making movies to change the world – Christianity TodayMovie Posters with a Holy Edge – Religion News Service