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Two University of Wisconsin professors, who co-edited the book, The Warfare Between Science and Religion, subtitled it, “the idea that wouldn’t die.” As in, warfare, what warfare? Ronald Numbers is the Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine Emeritus at the UW, and Jeffrey Hardin is the Raymond E. Keller Professor and chair of the Department of Integrative Biology. Numbers grew up in the Seventh Day Adventist Church and now describes himself as an agnostic. Hardin said he’s been a Christian believer since middle school. The two met through the UW’s Department of Religious Studies and were co-founders…

Some United Methodist congregations are facing the prospect of severing ties with the denomination after the church’s decision-making conference doubled down on rules that ban gay clergy members and same-sex marriage. “Certainly that would be part of our conversation,” said the Rev. Jenny Arneson, pastor of the Sun Prairie United Methodist Church, which has about 750 members and about 250 more who participate in services and programs. “How do we stay within the denomination or do we make a move?”

A little more than three years after it moved into a much larger location, Holy Cross Lutheran School has expanded again. A wing of the school on the Far East Side has been extended, doubling its size. It went from five classrooms to nine — each measuring about 1,000 square feet — plus two locker rooms. “It’s cool to watch our school grow,” eighth-grader Mae Collyard said.

At 4:00 in the afternoon on April 30, 1959, the Federal Communications Commission granted permission for a new radio station to begin broadcasting in Madison at 102.5 FM. About half an hour later the new station – WRVB – signed on the air. The radio station was the fulfillment of a dream for a Christian Radio Ministry in Madison for local businessman Paul Stewart. Stewart and many others in the community prayed and worked and prayed some more before the station was finally a reality that April afternoon sixty years ago.

One young woman’s lengthy battle to spread the Gospel at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College is now dragging into its fifth year. Since 2014, Polly Olsen has handed out Valentine’s Day cards with biblically themed messages to students and staff on campus. During that time, she has often been met with resistance in the form of the school’s public assembly policy, which forbids the “displaying of signs or mass distribution of literature with offensive content or that is likely to or intended to cause a disruption.”

The children wanted to talk to Candace, alone. They were students at a Wisconsin school, where, according to the Rev. Rod Armon, there had been a crisis. He didn’t say what kind of crisis or where it occurred, only that it warranted sending counselors to aid the troubled and traumatized. Armon, pastor for pastoral care at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Portage, is the handler for Candace, a 2½-year-old golden retriever trained as a comfort dog for Lutheran Church Charities.

Theology at its most basic is words about God, taken from the Greek theos (God) and logos (word). Speaking and thinking about God, in an informed way, is something we can all do and were encouraged to do when Fleming Rutledge spoke at Upper House in Madison last week. Rutledge, in 1977, was one of the first women to be ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church. After serving in parish ministry in the New York area for 22 years, she is now an acclaimed writer and lecturer. And a theologian. But not an academic theologian, she said, noting…

Each moment of Shelia Stubbs’ day is guided by a deep, unwavering faith in God. Prayer is not a daily activity for Stubbs, it’s a throughout-the-day activity. She prays when she wakes up, before she makes phone calls, before she does interviews–it keeps her balanced. “It’s her faith that got her here. Her faith in God, her faith in people, her faith in family, but most of all trusting and believing in God and following her conscience, her heart,” said her husband, Godfrey Stubbs. Read more of this story.

SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. (WMTV) — A shelter in Sun Prairie is working to help homeless single mothers and their children have a safe place to stay as they work towards finding a home of their own. On Sunday evening, Shelter from the Storm Ministries hosted Hearts for the Homeless, a fundraising event to benefit the shelter.

Three private Christian schools in Dane County will join the state voucher program this fall after years during which only one private school in the county offered spots for students to attend using a taxpayer subsidy. Abundant Life Christian School and High Point Christian School in Madison and Westside Christian School in Middleton have signed up for the statewide voucher program in the 2019-20 academic year, expanding the options for income-eligible Dane County students to receive a public voucher to cover private school tuition.