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  • Pressing Issues for the Global Church

    Upper|House 365 East Campus Mall, Suite 200, Madison, United States

    The Christian church is a multinational, multicultural, multilingual body that spans every society on the globe. In the twenty-first century, the vast majority of Christians live in the “Global South”—Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Yet in many conversations about “the Church,” Americans tend to focus on themselves. In this summer series of conversations Upper House

  • Friday Night Lecture Series: Can Ancient Christians Teach Us Anything About the Bible

    Geneva Campus Church 401 Blackhawk Avenue, Madison, WI, United States

    There is a long-unquestioned assumption that to understand biblical texts, one must first understand the original historical contexts. However, early Christian Bible readers didn't share this assumption and often interpreted biblical texts allegorically. Does this mean that interpretations of the Bible from before the Enlightenment are irrelevant today? In this lecture, Dr. Devin White will

  • “Can Good Fiction Deliver What Technology Can’t?”

    Upper|House 365 East Campus Mall, Suite 200, Madison, United States

      CAN GOOD FICTION DELIVER? Numbers are telling. On average, Americans spend nearly 5 hours a day on their phones. Research shows that 45% consider themselves addicted to their devices. Our hands naturally pick them up, open a screen, and voila, we enter another world. Yet there’s another technology that also helps us enter other

  • Rediscovering the Bible as Wisdom Literature: The Story of the BibleProject

    Upper House 365 East Campus Mall, Suite 200, Madison, WI, United States

    Tim Mackie, co-founder and lead scholar of BibleProject, will present a lecture on the story of the BibleProject and how it has become a powerful resource for Bible study and biblical understanding. Tim earned his PhD in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served as teaching pastor at Blackhawk Church.