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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (ANS) — The Hollywood Prayer Network (HPN) today launched the organization’s red 90028 wristbands and mySpace website as the next phase in their effort to raise awareness of Hollywood as "the world’s most influential mission field."Read more of this story.
Paul Grant, who attends Madison’s Fountain of Life Church, is a historian of cool. He knows where cool comes from, what’s the opposite of cool and how to be cool. He knows what makes cool, um, cool. “Although cool has a history, it likes to think of itself as forever young, or not having a history,” he says.Read more of this story.
NEWS RELEASEMADISON — The Family Research Institute of Wisconsin announced today that the statewide 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization has changed its name to Wisconsin Family Council, Inc.
In the past two years, Max Lucado, senior minister at San Antonio’s Oak Hills Church and a best-selling Christian author, has completed three half-Ironman Triathlons. Given that, it was unusual for the man called "America’s Best Preacher" in 2005 by Reader’s Digest to suddenly feel exhausted. Read more of this story.
Madison – The state Elections Board has dismissed a complaint against the Catholic Diocese of Madison, which included with a pre-election edition of its official newspaper an appeal that Catholics vote to change the state constitution to ban gay marriages. The board also dismissed a complaint against a suburban Madison church, Monona Oaks Community Church, that passed out 1,500 fliers that also urged a "yes" vote on the constitutional ban on gay marriages on Nov. 7.
Madison Bishop Robert Morlino says it pains him that local Catholics accuse him of not telling the truth about the shape and status of plans for a new cathedral."I’m being as honest as I can be," Morlino told about 50 people gathered for a prayer service Wednesday marking the second anniversary of the arson destruction of St. Raphael Cathedral, 222 W. Main St.Read more of this story.
(Independent Mail) Rows and rows of Bibles sit in Christian bookstores, waiting to be taken home. Fat, skinny, pink, blue, metal, leather. For kids, teens, 20-somethings, and older adults. If those aren’t enough choices, there also are numerous translations, including New International Version, Today’s New International Version, New Revised Standard Version, King James Version – and the list goes on. So how does one choose?Read more of this story.
SAN FRANCISCO (BP)–The city turned off the sound system, but it couldn’t turn off the celebration.Nearly 23,000 teens and their youth leaders filled AT&T Park in San Francisco with shouts of “Jesus” and “Hallelujah” Saturday morning accompanied only by hand-held radios scattered among the seats.Read more of this story.
Sometimes dumb sounds cute: Sixty percent of Americans can’t name five of the Ten Commandments, and 50% of high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married. Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University, isn’t laughing. Americans’ deep ignorance of world religions — their own, their neighbors’ or the combatants in Iraq, Darfur or Kashmir — is dangerous, he says.Read more of this story.
They call it the "Light Club." That’s because West Ridge Community Church in Elgin was built to look like a nightclub — the House of Blues in particular, according to co-pastor Darren Sloniger. Read more of this story.