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VICTORVILLE, Calif. — Mike Day, singer and guitarist, gathered his rock band around him. Dressed in a faded black T-shirt, jeans and skateboard sneakers, he bent his shaved head. "God," he said, "I hope these songs we sing will be much more than the music. I know it’s so difficult at times when we’re thinking about chords and lyrics and when to hit the right effect patch, but would you just help that to become second nature, so that we can truly worship you from our hearts?" Read more of this story.

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Over 3,000 teenagers, parents, and youth leaders are expected to gather this Saturday in Green Bay, Wis., for the 17th annual “Power of One” Christian music festival.Dubbed the state’s largest one-day event of its kind by organizers, the “Power of One: The Big Deal” festival will take place at the Brown County Resch Center and feature twelve hours of music, seminars, food and fun – all purposed to revitalize youth in the region with stronger faith and a sense of purpose, according to a statement released by Life Promotions.Read more of this story.Visit Power of One website.

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If there is one edition of The Economist you should pick up off the newsstand, it is this week’s because of its special report on the state of religion in the world. Quite appropriately, The Economist notes that it was wrong when it wrote in December 1999 that God’s career was over.Read more of this story.

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COMMENTARYAmerican evangelicalism has been the most potent force for the Christian faith in contemporary American culture. Historian Martin Marty once noted that to look at American religion and overlook Evangelicalism "would be comparable to scanning the American physical landscape and missing the Rocky Mountains." This past week New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick penned a cover story for the New York Times Magazine with the provocative question, “End Times for Evangelicals?” emblazoned on its front, followed by the following: “They don’t have a natural presidential candidate. They don’t have a unified leadership. They no longer seem to share even the same political beliefs.” The actual…

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Live ultrasound images of a baby squirming in a mother’s womb were shown to attendees at last night’s annual banquet of the CareNet Pregnancy Center of Dane County. The demonstration highlighted the services offered free to women facing unplanned pregnancies, using state of the art digital equipment that was received and installed earlier this year at CareNet’s facilities on the east side of Madison.

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