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"With the letters of the alphabet you can write any word that is known," said Professor Ron Tappy as he concluded his presentation Wednesday night for the 51st Annual Lecture of the Madison Biblical Archaeology Society and the University of Wisconsin Department of Hebew and Semitic Studies. "The alphabet represents infinity. From A to Z represents everything that is known."
The old saw "money can’t buy happiness" apparently holds true when it comes to work.Highly-paid professionals like doctors and lawyers didn’t make the cut when researchers set out to find the most satisfied workers.Clergy ranked tops in both job satisfaction and general happiness, according to the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.Read more of this story.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — About two years ago, Sung Tae Kim and his pastor, Chong Chin Park, were sitting in the parking lot at Home Depot when the pastor asked Kim to describe the woman he’d like to marry.Kim was 26. The faces of half a dozen ex-girlfriends flashed though his mind. "In viewing all the relationships I had, I saw they all ended in failure," he said. "I thought, I’m getting older and older." He decided to let Anchorage Good News Grace Church find a him a wife.Read more of this story.
CHICAGO, IL (ANS) — After being located at 646 South State Street since 1923, Chicago’s Pacific Garden Mission (PGM) is a few short months away from moving into a new 150,000 state-of-the-art rescue mission. In addition to the benefit of bringing all its ministry services under one roof, the functional, three-story facility has been planned with Green environmentally friendly design principles and renewable energy technologies in mind.Read more of this story.
Saying he wants to serve the city in a new way, the senior pastor of one of Madison’s largest congregations has announced he’s stepping down to join the Madison Police Department.
Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development.Read more of this story.
The Madison Diocese’s blueprint for a future with an ever-diminishing number of priests calls for the merger of 40 percent of parishes in its 11-county region.In Dane County, 20 parishes are marked for merger — from those in downtown Madison to St. Michael’s in tiny Dane. An additional 33 parishes are recommended for merger in outlying counties.Read more of this story.
Ripon – Using a hidden video camera and a wireless microphone, two Ripon College students have gone beyond asking "What would Jesus do?" to find out what impact his parables are having on everyday people after nearly 2,000 years.Read more of this story.
Most physicians in the United States believe that religion and spirituality have a positive effect on patients’ health, according to a survey published last week, and that God at least occasionally intervenes on their behalf.Read more of this story.
An unusually diverse committee of about a dozen local Protestant clergy, ranging from Unitarian to Evangelical Free Church, arranged an Earth Day Celebration entitled "Faith, Food and Earth Day 2007," that took place yesterday afternoon at Lake Edge Lutheran Church, 4032 Monona Drive. Despite differing positions on theological issues, they all agreed that loving God includes loving and caring for His creation, the earth around us.