Blackhawk Church

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. The BibleProject is located in Portland, Oregon.

Charles Yu, a pastor on the staff of Madison’s Blackhawk Church, is among a broadly diverse group of Christian leaders featured by the National Association of Evangelicals in a video which explains that evangelical is a religious term and not a political term. An email from NAE explains: Political, social and cultural trends have changed the public perception of evangelicalism, particularly in the United States. Many people now assume that evangelicals are white, American and Republican. While some evangelicals are those things, millions of self-identified evangelicals are not. This new video from the National Association of Evangelicals addresses what it…

PORTLAND, Oregon/CBN NEWS – Tucked away in a quiet Portland neighborhood is an animation studio that is opening the Bible to millions in a new and fresh way. An idea of some college buddies has become one of the most successful ways for people to understand the Bible. During their college days, long-time friends Tim Mackie and Jon Collins would kick around ideas on how to get more people to read the Bible and understand it better. After attending Bible college together, Jon served as a pastor before beginning a career making explainer videos for large companies. Tim got his…