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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.
On sabbatical last summer in central Mexico, Pastor Patrick Raymond had his eyes, and eventually, his soul, drawn to the pervasive carnival-colored displays of saints that mark home and public altars. Read more.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Barack Obama chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday for failing to "acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people," and said the party must compete for the support of evangelicals and other churchgoing Americans. Read more. Read the whole speech.Obama Critiqued – by Peter Wood