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DALLAS (Reuters) – If it wasn’t for churches and religious charities, a lot of folks would go hungry in the United States this winter. But while most churches believe in helping the poor, they take different views on how to go about it. Read more.
Conflicts inside and outside the workplace aren’t new, but there is an effort in Madison to use forgiveness to build harmony in the business environment.Madison’s International Forgiveness Institute, a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1994, was established as an outgrowth of the social science research done at UW-Madison by Robert Enright and his colleagues.Read more.
MIAMI — When Eve took that forbidden first bite of organic apple, she had no idea she would be linking food and religion forever. Thousands of years later evangelicals and worshippers of low-carb diets are worrying about how many carbs are in their communion crackers.In the first go round, dozens of books like the Hallelujah Diet and The Maker’s Diet harkened the fare of Biblical times to take off the pounds that church potlucks and Sunday picnics packed on.But the latest crop of faith-based diet books are moving outside the realm of food and exercise, touting a more holistic approach…
ORLANDO, FLA. – It’s rush hour in southeast Orlando – Sunday rush hour, that is. About a dozen churches are within a few miles of one another, and more are under construction. Neighbors venturing out for bagels and other errands find themselves stuck in traffic, heads bowed not in faith but frustration. Some complain that the traffic persists all week, as religious, youth, sports, and other activities draw crowds after work and school. Read more.
CommentaryHOLLYWOOD, CA (ANS) — Since the launch of the Moral Majority in the late 1970’s, conservative Christians, Jews and other like-minded traditionalists have put their time, efforts and cash into Republican Party coffers. For the last several years, the GOP leadership has rewarded their efforts by running the most liberal government since Lyndon Baines Johnson! Read more.
On Friday, December 8, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents adopted a policy change that directly impacts student organizations such as InterVarsity. We are thankful that the regents recognized a change was necessary. We hope that their action will allow our chapters at UW-Superior and UW-Madison to be fully recognized soon. Read more.
(CBS) You don’t have to look far to see why the University of Wisconsin makes the Top 10 list of party schools year after year, CBS News correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports. A trip down popular State Street says it all. But these days, another kind of bingeing is catching on, one that is less about beer and more about the Bible. Read the story. Video interview about this story.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — In the beginning was the book. Long before Christmas became a retail explosion, before Christian-related toys, doodads and décor became a $4.5 billion industry, faithful Protestants needed their Bibles. And the Dutch Reform farmers and small businesspeople who settled here between Holland and Grand Rapids, Mich., planted the seeds of what is now a world center of Bible publishing, scholarship and devotionals. Read more.
GREEN BAY – Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila always has been passionate about his faith. Agree with his beliefs or not, it most certainly defines who the Green Bay Packers defensive end is. Read more.
What does The Da Vinci Code have to do with a letter written by the archbishop of Alexandria in the year 367? As it turns out, quite a lot.Call it part of the Gnostic connection, a long, fine thread of influence connecting contemporary cultural debates with an important struggle in the early Christian movement to define the meaning of Jesus’s life and teaching. In that struggle-arguably the most important waged by self-styled correct believers against so-called heretics-orthodox Christians battled Gnostic Christians over their respective interpretations of divinity, human nature, sin, salvation, and other crucial theological and philosophical points. The soldiers…