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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 “Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt and we will meet at 12:30 pm on Tuesday, September 8 (date change from September 1), in the Canterbury room. Betsy will send out the Zoom link closer to the 1st.For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago.
Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova.
Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.
Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a gentle reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
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.
