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A Dwindling Evangelical Lutheran Church Reaches Out to African AmericansRICHMOND — A woman of quiet faith on most days, Lucille Mills transforms each Sunday into the Rev. CeCee — a foot-stompin’ minister who can match hallelujahs with the best Southern preachers.Like black ministers across Virginia, she aims to tap the energy of her church and direct it toward worship. But she’s an Evangelical Lutheran, and her tiny Chesapeake church is part of an effort to diversify the overwhelmingly white denomination, so closely identified with its German and Scandinavian roots.Read more of this story.
Even though it’s called a prayer breakfast it’s also a sacred assembly to recognize how people are serving God and serving others in the Madison community, said Fred Grossenbach, President of The Jericho Project, as he opened the Wisconsin Prayer Breakfast at the Marriott Madison West this morning. He recognized by name over a dozen ministries* that are impacting the quality of life in Madison.
One year ago today, May 23, 2006, a news release proclaimed "A New Online City-Wide Faith Community" as it announced a new Madison website, www.madisonchristians.com. In the year since then, madisonchristians.com has offered Madison area residents 32 original local news stories on events of interest to the local faith community. In fact each day there’s a fresh new story on the Madison Christians website, either a local story or a link to a fresh and thoughtful faith perspective from other media on the internet.
The evangelical Christian movement, which has been pivotal in reshaping the country’s political landscape since the 1980s, has shifted in potentially momentous ways in recent years, broadening its agenda and exposing new fissures.Read more of this story.
LYNCHBURG, Va., May 19 — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich decried a "growing culture of radical secularism" Saturday morning as he hailed the life of Liberty University’s late founder, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, in an address to the school’s 2007 graduating class.Read more of this story
COMMENTARYPete Hammond, a senior InterVarsity staff member and vice president-at-large, spoke at the Belhaven College graduation in Jackson, Mississippi, and offered some Bible-tested wisdom for the graduates.Read more of this story.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ANS) — Ten years ago Christian men from across the United States gathered in the nation’s capital to honor their faith, belief, worship and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now the men of America are being invited to return to the grounds of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, in less than six months, for a similar gathering.Read more of this story.Meanwhile, Promisekeepers has a new format for 2007.
COMMENTARYAccording to the International Programs Center, U.S. Bureau of the Census, as of today, May 15, 2007, the total population of the world is 6,595,336,785.Over two billion of them are Christians. That’s one out of every three persons on the planet.But according to the latest research from Todd M. Johnson, Research Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, most non-Christians have never met one. Read more of this commentary by James Emery White, of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
COMMENTARYThe Rev. Jerry Falwell passed away yesterday after collapsing at his office in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was 73.Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority in 1979 to give conservative Christians a political voice. He worked to mobilize the Christian voters who helped elect Ronald Reagan president in 1980. Even though the Moral Majority membership was reported in the millions, I was never able to detect that it developed much traction in Wisconsin. But Falwell did have a headline-making appearance in the heart of Madison back in those early days.
WASHINGTON, May 7 — A new coalition of more than 100 largely evangelical Christian leaders and organizations asked Congress on Monday to pass bills to strengthen border controls but also give illegal immigrants ways to gain legal residency. The announcement spotlights evangelical leaders’ increasingly visible efforts to push for what they say is a more humane policy in keeping with biblical injunctions to show compassion for their neighbors, the weak and the alien. Read more of this story.