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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 Correspondent” by Virginia Evans. We will meet on Tuesday, May 5 in the Canterbury Room and via Zoom. Betsy Rogers will send out the Zoom link closer to the 5th.
Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.
Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has—a mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a very full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes that the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.
If you wish to join the book club contact Karen Schwatz 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.
