The Freedom from Religion Foundation is based in Madison, WI - right in our backyard. Their influence reaches across the whole country. Below are some links to what they've been up to lately.

• COLORADO IS BEING SUED FOR ‘DAY OF PRAYER’: Freedom from Religion Foundation organization filed lawsuit
  November 19, 2008
  • NOREEN: Imagine everybody friendly for a change
    November 19, 2008
• FFRF Sues Colorado Governor Over Prayer Proclamations
  November 13, 2008
• Bill Berkowitz: Medefind minds Bush's faith-based store
  November 19, 2008
• Atheists Reach Out -- Just Don't Call It Proselytizing
  November 18, 2008
• Freedom From Religion Upset Over City Council's Change of Plan
  November 7, 2008

Two years ago, Facing the Giants, a low-budget sports movie made by volunteers at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, grossed $10 million on a budget of only $100,000.

This year, Sherwood scored a bigger hit when Fireproof, a marriage-in-crisis movie made for $500,000, surpassed even the $25 million take of Big Idea's 2002 film, Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. (It has currently earned $28,327,659, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.)

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Missional Shift or Drift?
a Leadership Survey Report by Helen Lee | ChristianityToday.com

Research shows that pastors' views of the gospel and mission are changing. But should we celebrate or repent?

In the summer of 2000, Mike Lueken had every reason to be proud as a pastor of Oak Hills Church in Folsom, California. Every Sunday, thousands of people flocked to Oak Hill's sixteen acre campus with its 35,000-square-foot facility, and the church was doing everything that a thriving, suburban megachurch with a $2 million budget was supposed to do. But then Lueken took a class at Fuller Seminary taught by Dallas Willard. The experience led to a complete change of course for him and Oak Hills Church.

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Lueken's story illustrates the change occurring among today's pastors, change that reflects new—or renewed—interest in a fuller picture of the gospel and in a sense of mission.

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