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COMMENTARY In 1911 the English-speaking world paused to mark the 300th anniversary of the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, with American political leaders foremost in the chorus of exaltation. To former president Theodore Roosevelt, this Bible translation was "the Magna Carta of the poor and the oppressed . . . the most democratic book in the world." Soon-to-be president Woodrow Wilson said much the same thing: "The Bible (with its individual value of the human soul) is undoubtedly the book that has made democracy and been the source of all progress." Read more.
Cindy and Brian Herbst were in the market for a smaller house when they stumbled across the Pierstorff House, a hundred-year-old, ten-bedroom behemoth of a structure in downtown Middleton.While not exactly the modest quarters they were considering after the last of their children departed for college, the home presented them the opportunity to do something they had been considering for the past five years: create a "transplant house". Read more. News ReleaseHome Page
This summer groups from many Madison churches are traveling to participate in ministry projects. This report is from Angie Meyers, a 2005 journalism graduate of the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology now working as an administrative assistant at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. She and her husband Dave were a part of a group of 40 men and women from Blackhawk Church that traveled to Juarez, Mexico, to construct a Sunday School building for a church and a home for a family. We set out on our trek Saturday, June 10 at 5:00am, for a 30 hour bus ride to El Paso, Texas.…
Chaplains have long been staples in the trenches and in hospital wards. In recent years they have become increasing prominent in the workplace as well, and High Point Church’s Associate Minister Steve Cook has brought the trend to Dane County. Read more.
Sixteen Madison area pastors say former University of Wisconsin-Madison Vice Chancellor Paul Barrows was treated unfairly by the university’s provost. Read more.
There’s something awfully syncretistic about the 72-foot Statue of Liberation Through Christ, created by World Overcomers Outreach in Memphis. It looks like the New York Harbor’s Statue of Liberty, only instead of a torch, she’s carrying a cross, and instead of the July 4, 1776, tablet, she carries the Ten Commandments. Her crown says "Jehovah," and a tear is running down her cheek. A tear indeed. World Overcomers pastor Alton Williams says the 12,000-pound statue, which cost $260,000, was created to fight "godlessness in America." The New York Times quotes him saying, "This statue proves that Jesus Christ is Lord…
At a small service in a local church, the leaders of InterVarsity Link this month commissioned seven new Link staff members to overseas duty with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. “We’re going to pray for you to be like Jesus in the places where He’s sending you,” said Link director Becky Stephen. Read more.
When Ed Brown left Madison for Islamabad last November, he knew he would have to juggle temporary concerns with permanent solutions, earthquake aftershocks, a long hard winter and an uncertain Pakistani bureaucracy. Read more. Shelter for Life websiteCare of Creation website
A new book, "American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation," explores our religious heritage. Its author, Jon Meacham, managing editor of Newsweek magazine, follows the path from the compromises and decisions made more than 200 years ago to the divide between the Christian right and liberal secularism today. Read More.
The St. Benedict Center, a Benedictine ecumenical community serving Madison for the past 40 years, has ended its ties to the Roman Catholic Church. Read more.