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Message from the Bishop
Message from the Bishop
We try to meet the special needs of both members and visitors through equipping our facility with a hearing loop system, an ADA restroom and a restroom with changing table, access with no stairs to both worship and fellowship space, and accessible parking.
Message from the Bishop
Message from the Bishop
Message from the Bishop
Easter Message from the Bishop of Wisconsin, The Rt. Rev. Matthew Gunter
The news of our world, near and far, is thick with anxiety, anger, and despair. It feels stifling.
In Jesus Christ, God has entered into the stifling atmosphere of human reality, the reality of sin, suffering, and death. He entered that reality to the uttermost – abandoned, tortured, and brutally executed. The God we know in and through Jesus has placed himself in solidarity in the concrete reality of human history with all its terror and tragedy. God is not aloof. God has taken on sin, suffering, and death in the incarnation and taken them all the way to the cross. All the way to the grave.
God bears the wounds. God bears the wounds of all of history. This God bears the wounds you and I have suffered as well as those we have inflicted. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury during WWII, wrote, “The wounds of Christ are his credentials to the suffering race of [humanity] . . . Only a God in whose perfect Being pain has its place can win and hold our worship.”
(the complete message is here)
Book Club News
Message from the Bishop
Book Club News
Our next read is “The Devotion of Suspect X” by Keigo Higashino and we will meet at 12:30 pm on Tuesday, October 6, in the Canterbury room and via Zoom. Betsy Rogers will send out the Zoom link closer to our meeting date.
The critically acclaimed international bestselling novel by one of Japan's premier storytellers, Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect Xmarks the first book in his beloved Detective Galileo mysteries.
Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko's next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step.
When the body turns up and is identified, Detective Kusanagi draws the case and Yasuko comes under suspicion. Kusanagi is unable to find any obvious holes in Yasuko's manufactured alibi and yet is still sure that there's something wrong. Kusanagi brings in Dr. Manabu Yukawa, a physicist and college friend who frequently consults with the police. Yukawa, known to the police by the nickname Professor Galileo, went to college with Ishigami.
After meeting up with him again, Yukawa is convinced that Ishigami had something to do with the murder. What ensues is a high level battle of wits, as Ishigami tries to protect Yasuko by outmaneuvering and outthinking Yukawa, who faces his most clever and determined opponent yet.
NEWS AND EVENTS
Calendar of parish and community events
List of worship services, fellowship gatherings, forums and presentations, learning opportunities, ministry meetings, and selected community events. Check it out here.
