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An 18-year-old student from an academic institution in Wisconsin has accused a professor of forcing her to omit references to the Bible for a class assignment. University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County Professor Annette Kuhlman is guilty of religious discrimination for not allowing biblical references in a sociology project, student Rachel Langeberg claims.
Two prominent women. They were both 88 years old, well known and highly respected in their spheres, yet they held two completely different worldviews. When they died 24 hours apart, I couldn’t help but consider how these two women, so much alike in their tenacity, passion, and commitment, had given their lives over to polar opposite causes. Anne Nicol Gaylor, co-founder of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, died June 14, 2015 and Elisabeth Elliot, Christian missionary, speaker and author, died the next day on June 15.
A Catholic religious order that owns a large tract of undeveloped land on Lake Monona has fallen silent about the parcel’s future. The historic property in Monona, known as San Damiano, is owned by the Norbertines of Saint Norbert Abbey in De Pere. In January, Norbertine officials said they were having the property assessed for possible sale.
A couple of hours before Chris Gernetzke was to become a priest, he could be found in a room at St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church in Madison laying out the vestments he would wear at that evening’s ordination Mass. On June 26, Gernetzke and five other seminarians became priests, the largest ordination class in the diocese in 42 years. It was a culmination of years and years of study by the six men.
On Oct. 11, 1903, the Milwaukee Sentinel published an unusual story with a provocative headline: “Pastor Fenwick Is A White Man.” The article detailed how congregants in the city’s oldest black church, St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal, discovered their spiritual leader was white.
Madison-based InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s 23 chapters on 19 of the California State University (CSU) campuses will once again be recognized student groups, according to CSU and InterVarsity. InterVarsity chapters were not recognized at CSU campuses for the 2014-2015 academic year.
For the past year, Marshall resident Steve Coleman, a retired mechanical engineer and lifelong Catholic, has been giving occasional presentations at area parishes in hopes of convincing his fellow faithful that global warming is real and its consequences dire. He senses his work just got easier. On Thursday, Pope Francis, who has a 90 percent approval rating among U.S. Catholics, issued a major teaching letter on the environment.
The Generosity Movement has arrived in Madison and the City Reaching Gospel Movement may not be far behind. These two movements are spreading across the country, according to Linda Maris, president of the National Christian Foundation Wisconsin, who spoke at the Launch Celebration of the Madison Christian Giving Fund which was held this evening at the Upper House on the UW-Madison campus.The Madison Christian Giving Fund is a way for Christians in the Madison area to pool their resources so that collectively they can have more of a positive impact on the Madison community. “Think of it as a new…
Osseo (WQOW) – A young woman, who is running across Wisconsin to raise awareness for human trafficking, ran through Osseo Monday. Hannah Redders is currently on a 10-day run from Superior to Milwaukee that she calls The Rescue Run. Each day she runs 20 miles.
The Rev. Alex Gee doesn’t want to “bash Madison.” Nor does he think “we’re fine just the way we are.” His coalition of influential African-American residents, called Justified Anger, just released its “Our Madison Plan” to address racial disparities in education, incarceration and the economy. He met last week with the Wisconsin State Journal editorial board.