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Madison’s Freedom From Religion Foundation unveiled its new anti-religion billboard Tuesday in Madison. The billboard, located off the West Beltline near the Todd Drive exit, displays the message “Beware of Dogma” along with the group’s name and web address. Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of FFRF, said the billboard is the first in the nation, after several attempts to buy billboard space and the group being repeatedly turned down. The billboard serves as a kickoff to the group’s national convention next weekend in Madison.Read more at TheBadgerHerald.com >> | Photo Credit: CARL JAEGER/Herald photoAlso: Those Called "Faithless" Get Their First Billboard…
On Monday, October 1, 2007, Victorien Wawa, French Service Minister, Husband, Father, Blessed Man of God and Friend passed at University Hospital in the company of family and friends. Victorien is survived by his wife, Emma, their son, Eleazar, and two daughters, Sephora and Deborah.Funeral services will be held at Evangel Life Center, 4402 Femrite Drive, Madison, at noon on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007, with the Rev. John F. Clark officiating. Visitation will be at the church from 10:30 a.m. until the time of the service.
Washington – Before six of the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and more than 1,000 other worshippers, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of Milwaukee delivered a homily Sunday at the capital’s annual Roman Catholic Red Mass.Read more of this story.
Sin never goes out of style, but confession is undergoing a revival.This February at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI instructed priests to make confession a top priority. U.S. bishops have begun promoting it in diocesan newspapers, mass mailings and even billboard ads. And in a dramatic turnaround, some Protestant churches are following suit. This summer, the second-largest North American branch of the Lutheran Church passed a resolution supporting the rite, which it had all but ignored for more than 100 years.Read more of this story.
Sunday night at Capital City Church in Madison, over 160 in attendance watched the lively singing and dancing of the Watoto Children’s Choir. Watoto means "The Children" and can these children sing! This is the third week of their 7 month tour. They arrived in Chicago from Uganda just a short time ago.Nearly 11 million children die each year before their fifth birthday. In Africa, there are over 60 million orphaned children. Many die from AIDS and others are abducted into the army as soldiers. By 2010, there will be 50 million children orphaned by AIDS.Watoto is part of the…
NEWS RELEASECapital Chaplains LLC announces that A&J Specialty Services, Inc. of De Forest, Wisconsin, and Dane Manufacturing of Dane, Wisconsin, have signed agreements for corporate chaplaincy services for all employees and family/household members.
PHILADELPHIA — The play was 48 Toss, and 30 years later, Dick Vermeil remembers it as if he called it last Sunday. Herb Lusk took a pitch from Ron Jaworski, headed around left end and breezed unscathed 70 yards for a fourth-quarter touchdown. Four steps over the goal line at Giants Stadium, the Philadelphia Eagles’ running back rewrote the playbook. Alone in the end zone, with a crowd of 48,824 looking on, he celebrated with a gesture in what has since become a watershed moment in American sports. With little ceremony and no advance warning, Lusk kept his eyes straight,…
CLARKSTON, Ga., Sept. 21 — When the Rev. Phil Kitchin steps into the pulpit of the Clarkston International Bible Church on Sunday mornings, he stands eye to eye with the changing face of America. In the pews before him, alongside white-haired Southern women in their Sunday best, sit immigrants from the Philippines and Togo, refugees from war-scarred Liberia, Ethiopia and Sudan, even a convert from Afghanistan.Read more of this story.
The stepped-up use of technology has changed the way people worship in a way that some parishioners and experts like and others don’t.Read more of this story.
News ReleaseWE International and Escape Coffee Gallery presents A “Do Justice” awareness event. Featuring the works of David Lippiatt and Erin Rufledts’ Synapse: The Space Between. A visually communicative photo show celebrating the beauty of people in the less developed world while raising awareness about the realities, struggles and injustices facing many of their lives.