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BELLFLOWER, California – At the height of his Hollywood success, former "Growing Pains" sitcom star Kirk Cameron started worrying about something his money couldn’t buy: salvation.Read more of this story.
They admit they’re a motley bunch, but the people organizing Madison’s first low-power FM community radio station say they all have a common goal: getting new voices on the airwaves.Those in central Madison be able to tune in 99.1 WIDE starting in September, a moment that the organizers — area non-profit groups, volunteer journalists, music aficionados, church groups and community activists — have been awaiting for six years.Read more of this story.Lake City Church also starting a new radio ministry.
COMMENTARYYou can gain anything you want in life—wealth, health, the perfect mate, business success, respect from others—literally anything. That is the promise of the No. 1 best-selling book The Secret (Beyond Words). The editor, Rhonda Byrne, explains that "the secret" can be found in everything from Babylonian religion to Buddhism to Albert Einstein. The Secret (available as both a book and a DVD) is no secret now, however. It has become a global video event, a clever cross-promotional marketing plan, and a book touted by Oprah.Read more of this story.
NEWS RELEASE(Madison, WI) – A near record number of campus staff appointees have arrived in Madison to prepare for ministry in the vibrant arena of the college campus. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA has welcomed 126 new and provisional staff appointees from across the country to Orientation of New Staff. The annual training is held June 18-27 at the Inn on the Park, 22 S. Carroll Street, in downtown Madison.Read more of this story.
The United Methodist Church in Wisconsin is facing a possible clergy shortage, with 55 pastors in local churches reaching the minimum retirement age in 2008, and fewer people entering ordained ministry in their 20s and 30s, a church leader told 1,000 clergy and lay members at a four-day annual meeting in Middleton last week.Read more of this story.
The United Methodist Church in Wisconsin is facing a possible clergy shortage, with 55 pastors in local churches reaching the minimum retirement age in 2008, and fewer people entering ordained ministry in their 20s and 30s, a church leader told 1,000 clergy and lay members at a four-day annual meeting in Middleton last week.Read more of this story.
COMMENTARYWhen it comes to religion and politics, many skeptics are convinced that strong faith leads to judgmentalism, which leads to intolerance, which leads to oppression and, ultimately, theocracy. Many people disagree, saying that it’s impossible to defend basic human rights without a religious or at philosophical commitment to moral absolutes. It’s easy to tell who is who when they speak out. Read more of this story.
NEWS RELEASEMONTREAT, N.C., June 16 – With her husband, Billy Graham, her older sister and five children participating in the program, and all 19 of her grandchildren serving as pallbearers or honorary pallbearers, Ruth Graham’s life was celebrated at her public funeral today in the 2,000-seat Anderson Auditorium at the Montreat Conference Center filled to capacity with family members and friends from the local community.Read more of this story.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (ANS) — According to Eric Bumpus and Tim Moranville, authors of CEASE FIRE: THE WAR IS OVER, there is a spiritual war that is taking place, and it will wage on until Christ’s return. But the fight Christians are involved in is not a battle with guns and tanks, but the ‘culture war’ rumbling through America. Bumpus and Moranville, say: "Christians have lost because they have adopted the political techniques of those around them." The authors contend that Christians have become just like the world they seek to "clean up." Read more of this story.
The small Bosnian village known as Medjugorje, where a busload of Wisconsinites were headed when they crashed Monday, has drawn millions of predominantly Catholic pilgrims for more than 25 years.More on this story.