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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 gathering will be Tuesday, November 3 in the Canterbury Room and via Zoom at 12:30 pm. The read is “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China” by Jung Chang. Betsy will send out the Zoom link closer to our meeting date.
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.
An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
If you would like to join our book club contact Karen Schwartz or Betsy Rogers.
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.
