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Two hundred and one international students, representing 19 different countries enjoyed the 8th annual Hay Ride, co-sponsored by InterVarsity’s University of Wisconsin-Madison International Fellowship and Walnut Hill Bible Church in Baraboo, WI.Read more of this story.
LE MARS, Iowa — There is a comforting certainty to life in this conservative hamlet 25 miles north of Sioux City, where Christian men gather every Wednesday at noon to be fortified by fellowship and prayer. Folks are quite proud of the 10-foot-tall ice cream sundae statue at the center of town, a symbol of the 120 million gallons of Blue Bunny ice cream churned out annually here at the family-owned dairy.But these days, there is an uncertainty about politics and their civic responsibility that is unsettling. This has been rock-solid Bush country. Conservatives and evangelicals were largely at peace…
SAN DIEGO (ABP) – African Christians tend to understand and appreciate the Old Testament far better than their Western counterparts, author Philip Jenkins told his fellow evangelical scholars Nov. 15.Jenkins, a professor of religious studies and history at Pennsylvania State University, spoke in San Diego to fellow members of the Evangelical Theological Society. His speech was one of several addresses and papers presented during the body’s 59th annual meeting, themed “Teaching Them to Obey.” Read more of this story.
Planned Parenthood may have the legal right to operate its new clinic in Aurora, Illinois, but the blowback from the prolife community has been staggering.In fact, the emerging story looks to me like the rebirth of the prolife protest. Read more of this story.
Instead of feeding passes to teammates, Michael Redd was passing Thanksgiving food to the needy Friday at the House of Peace. The moves came naturally to the Milwaukee Bucks’ star guard, a minister’s son.Read more of this story.
Let’s face it: Atheism is in. Not since Nietzsche have disbelievers enjoyed such a ready public reception to their godless message—and such near-miraculous royalties. But even that hasn’t put them in a good mood. Snaps Christopher Hitchens, who wrote God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (although not, presumably, the pronouncements of atheists), "Many of the teachings of Christianity are, as well as being incredible and mythical, immoral." A feuding Richard Dawkins suggests that believers "just shut up." Apparently, they didn’t get the tolerance memo.Read more of this story.
While the ballroom sessions of the first day of the Evangelical Theological Society meeting had more attendees, no session was as packed as J.P. Moreland’s “How Evangelicals Became Over-Committed to the Bible and What Can Be Done About It.” While the average breakout session seems to be attended by fewer than 50 people, easily more than 200 packed the room to hear Moreland’s talk, with dozens standing and more listening outside the door.Read more of this story.
Week after week, the Rev. Rob Bell preaches to thousands of congregants at his nondenominational church, Mars Hill, in Grandville, Mich. He makes Christian-themed short films that are seen by millions. He writes bestselling Christian books. And he tours the country sermonizing to rapt audiences.Read more of this story.
As Olympic organizers in Beijing prepare for the 2008 Summer Games, Steve McConkey is gearing up for the event from his apartment in Madison. As president of 4 Winds Christian Athletics, he is reaching out to Olympic-caliber athletes, especially those in track and field, a sport he coached at the club level in the 1980s.Read more of this story.
RONG DOMRIEX, Cambodia — Tel Im, a barefoot 13-year-old, sat cross-legged on a bamboo bench, eager for her reading lesson. "Please turn to Lesson 33," said a woman’s voice rising from a Sony cassette player powered by two wires clipped to a car battery. The tape was the closest thing to a school in this village shaded by banana trees, where water buffaloes meander in from the lime-green rice paddies. Im and her classmates flipped to Page 134 for a passage from the New Testament.Read more of this story.