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A grant of $5,000 from the Madison Christian Giving Fund to sponsor a fall outreach event by the Evangelical Catholic organization in Madison is having even greater impact than expected. Madison diocese Bishop Robert Morlino heard of the donation and called his top advisors together to hear more about the grant and the event being planned. According to Jason Simon, executive director of the Evangelical Catholic, the Bishop had never met with the group before. It was the grant from MCGF that opened the door and got the Bishop’s attention. As a result of that discussion what was going to…

The World Vision Experience Truck is traveling across the country this summer and one of its stops is in Madison at Asbury United Methodist Church.  Housed in an expandable semi-trailer truck, this exhibit offers viewers a 20-minute virtual journey to witness a brothel in Bangladesh, the conditions surrounding the Syrian Refugee Crisis, and a unique threat in a community in Uganda — three examples of peoples in need of our Christian love, support, and action.

When we blame the problem on residents from Chicago, we wash our hands of any culpability that these young people (or issues or shootings) may be the product of our own environment. Maybe the hopelessness and the anger was incubated in our neighborhoods, our schools, our services, our faith communities. When we don’t own a problem we also don’t own the responsibility to work toward a solution for OUR Madison.

A crowd of 5600 was reported for evangelist Franklin Graham’s noon hour prayer rally at the King Street entrance to the Wisconsin State Capitol building.Graham is touring the capitols of all 50 states with an appeal for Christians to invest more heavily in the political process by praying for the country and actually running for office on the local, state, and national levels.

Rejecting recent statements by the Rev. Franklin Graham, a group of Madison religious leaders say they will hold an interfaith gathering at the same time the prominent Christian evangelist is scheduled to rally people at the state Capitol on Wednesday. The alternative service, called “Neighbors in Faith,” will celebrate religious diversity and the common good, according to organizers, who criticized Graham for comments he’s made about Islam, Muslim immigrants, atheists, gay people and others.

Evangelist Franklin Graham has sent the following message to the citizens of Wisconsin: I’m going to be in Madison on Wednesday, June 15, for a Decision America Tour prayer rally—and I hope you will join me to intercede for our troubled country.

As the public policy guy for the Southern Baptist Convention, Russell Moore is used to being asked about religion and politics. But this year, with voters facing two presidential candidates most of them dislike, the most common question he’s getting shocks him. “What I expected the primary question to be from evangelicals is: ‘What do we do in terms of voting in November?’ That hasn’t been it. It’s been: ‘Does this mean America is under the judgment of God?’” Moore said. “There’s a kind of person for whom every year seems like an end times novel. This year has even…

Looking for a good Bible college education? The best Bible college in the country is not in Madison, but it’s just over an hour down the road in Dubuque, Iowa.

Founded “to create better understanding of the Abrahamic traditions and their interrelationships by encouraging ongoing discussion of these traditions among scholars, members of those traditions, and the general public,” the Lubar Institute has sponsored scores of events and publications: international conferences, art exhibitions, colloquiums, lectures, interfaith forums, workshops with primary and secondary schoolers, books, and student journals. Each project was designed to foster greater understanding of the Abrahamic religions, and to ratify the values of religious tolerance vital for thickening the bonds of American civil society. Read more of this news release.  

Two years ago Madison’s Memorial Day Brat Fest celebration invited Lifest of Oshkosh to the show, with a new stage featuring Christian music and a Sunday morning community worship service. This year the Lifest at Brat Fest Sunday service ventured further up the Fox River Valley to connect with the Green Bay Packers, bringing in former All Pro defensive lineman Aaron Kampman as the speaker.Kampman, who left the Packers after his seventh season in 2009, is now retired from football but still connected through the Green Bay Packers Trust (according to bio information). He’s also a Dallas Theological Seminary graduate,…