Newsletter Winter 2012
Featured Article: “Altars and sacrifice”
A ltars are a powerful symbol
across faith traditions. Most
of the world’s religions have
at some time constructed and used
altars as a place of sacrifice, a place of
worship, a place to signify where we
see God, a place of remembrance, a
structure built to represent God’s presence.
We read of the creation of altars
in Exodus 17:15, I Sam. 14:35. Altars
were to be built of earth or stone and
stones had to be unhewn, stones over
which no iron tool had been used (Ex.
20:23-25). The prohibition for using
iron in creating a temple is explained
in the Talmud, The Mishnah elaborates: "for iron was created to
shorten man's days, while the
altar was created to lengthen
man's days; what shortens
may not rightly be lifted up
against what lengthens" (Mid. 3:4).... (view entire newsletter)
Newsletter Fall 2011
Featured Article: “Standing with the poor and hurting of Dane County”
This is the first part of Madison-area
Urban Ministry’s mission statement.
You don’t hear many candidates talk
about standing with the poor.
Candidates and elected officials are
very good about promising to stand
and fight for the middle class. What
they either don’t understand or choose
to ignore is that the fate of the middle
class and the poor are inextricably
linked. It is exactly because we have
allowed candidates, political parties
and elected officials to demonize and
blame the poor that we now find middle
class public employees and union
employees demonized and blamed for
the woes of the state budget... (view entire newsletter)
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