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A man who could not see. Another man who invited him to open his eyes. People amazed and divided by the transformation that had taken place. And a new way of seeing the world and living in it. Those are some of the elements of that story of Jesus giving sight to the man born blind in the Gospel of John, chapter 9. They are also some of the elements of the story of Noel Paul Stookey – someone probably best know as the Paul in the folk trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, that soared to fame in the 1960s.…
From George Washington to Barack Obama, almost every president has signed a proclamation of national prayer. But since the Reagan administration the National Day of Prayer has been institutionalized on the first Thursday of May. And this year, our nation may need prayer more than ever. National Day of Prayer events in Madison have typically been held in and outside of the state capitol building. For the last six years the coordinator of the Wisconsin observance has been Joleen Helbig of Cumberland, Wisconsin. Helbig met with about a dozen local pastors and ministry leaders at Upper House on March 23rd…
I’m guessing that Rev. Marcus Allen gets the question a lot but I’m going to ask it anyways: Do people ever take notice that a rather young man is the new senior pastor at the 106-year-old Mt. Zion Baptist Church?
It may seem like Eric Brown II x’19 took the road well-traveled for a college athlete: he developed a passion for his sport as early as age seven, set records in high school, and followed in his father’s footsteps. Eric Brown Sr. x’93 also ran track for UW–Madison.But the road for Brown — who placed seventh in the 800-meter run at the Big Ten Championships last season — wasn’t always smooth. He was bullied in grade school due to a stutter, high-pitched voice, and skinny frame. He remembers his class erupting in laughter as he read aloud, bringing him to…
A Madison photographer is challenging a city ordinance and state law that her lawyers say could compel creative professionals to promote messages that violate their religious beliefs. The Alliance Defending Freedom, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based conservative Christian organization, filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court on Tuesday on behalf of Amy Lawson, owner of Amy Lynn Photography Studio.
The Madison Plan Commission approved plans Monday for the expansion of a private West Side religious school. Lighthouse Christian School is looking to convert an office building on the city’s Southwest Side that will offer more space than is currently available at Lighthouse Church, 5202 Regent St. The proposed renovation calls for creating about 19 classrooms, two bathrooms, a computer room, gymnasium and chapel in the 37,000-square-foot building at 6400 Schroeder Road.
The Madison Christian Giving Fund announced that its campaign for 2016 concluded with $123,000 raised. They have allocated $123,000 to 23 Christian organizations to meet some of Madison’s most challenging issues in 2017. The Madison Christian Giving Fund is a new organization with a board of 20 volunteer members seeking to organize a central funding source for Christian based agencies. One hundred percent of the money raised through workplace payroll deductions, private donations, and social media campaigns is being distributed to Christian based agencies that meet community needs while encouraging a gospel message of hope as part of their programming.
When Jennifer Wiseman was studying astrophysics at Harvard, there were no known planets outside of our own solar system. Today, astronomers have identified thousands of planets surrounding distant stars. In fact just last week, the announcement of seven planets orbiting a dwarf star in the constellation Aquarius, stunned the astronomical world. What Wiseman did do during her college years, as an undergraduate researcher at MIT, was discover a comet, the comet known as 114P/Wiseman-Skiff. She is now Senior Astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. She is also the director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Dialogue…
PRAIRIE DU SAC — Sister Christina Marie, 33, was an entomologist. Sister Mary Benedicta, 36, studied to be an aeronautical engineer. And Sister Mary Bede, 30, intended to become a professional violinist. They left those lives to become nuns, cloistered together at Valley of Our Lady Monastery in a small village in Sauk County. It’s home to a Cistercian order, the only Catholic convent of its kind in the country. Read more of this story.
Christa Fisher receives a couple hundred requests from Dane County Jail inmates per week, asking for her services as a chaplain that range from one-on-one spiritual guidance to providing extra pairs of socks. She is a chaplain with the Madison Area Jail Ministry, a nonprofit ecumenical Christian ministry that serves jail inmates of many faiths. The organization is celebrating its 50th year in 2017 and originally formed to provide support to Dane County Sheriff’s Office deputies delivering death notices and to the families receiving them.