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Have you noticed that there is increasing interest in the Holy Spirit? A friend of mine told me “people are tired of fluff and entertainment. They want the hard truth. As God touches them they become fired up to learn and experience more of the Holy Spirit. The fish are jumping in the boat!”
Over 165 years, the congregation of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Downtown Madison has always been willing to change for the sake of ministry, the Rev. Peter Beeson said. Now the church is planning for its most dramatic change ever with a proposal to demolish its building at 322 E. Washington Ave. for a $25 million to $31 million, 10-story redevelopment that would feature a new sanctuary, community spaces and offices on the first floor, topped by nine floors of mostly lower-cost apartments with below-ground parking.
Dane County After 5 Women’s Connection is holding a Guest Night on Monday, August 16, 2021. That means men are invited too. Randy Zemlicka of Monroe, Wisconsin, will be speaking on “Running the Marathon of Life.” We all have struggles whether it is our health, anxiety, or losing someone you love. Randy encourages us that “Life is a marathon we were never intended to run along.”
What was the first book in Memorial Library? Memorial Library has a long — and somewhat fraught — history, and when it opened on July 27, 1953, the arrival of the first book was cause for celebration. (Fraught: the UW had begged for 20 years to get the funds to build a new library, and even after the legislature agreed, construction was delayed first by a steel shortage and then an accident that caused the framework to collapse.)
WAUPUN, Wis. (WMTV) – A first of its kind graduation took place Tuesday, not in an auditorium, or a gymnasium, but inside a prison. A group of 20 inmates at the Waupun Correctional Institution made history. They graduated with a four-year bachelor’s degree. This is the first time the Wisconsin Dept. of Corrections (DOC) has sponsored this kind of inmate education program. “It’s been an experience like no other,” 34-year-old August White said. White has been behind bars for the last 16 years.
Fifteen pastors filter in on an overcast and surprisingly chilly summer day to our pavilion in William G. Lunney Lake Farm Park. Some gather and greet old friends and colleagues; others initiate introductions while they wait for us to get started. We welcome them to this initial gathering for Awaken Dane that is intended exclusively for pastors participating in our first cohort. But Awaken Dane itself is for more than just clergy. Over the next couple of months, these pastors will be inviting 8-10 congregation members from their respective churches to join our program. Together, pastors and their congregational teams will…
Those who haven’t heard of NBA player Giannis Antetokounmpo before this week, will surely hear about the man known as the “Greek Freak” who lead his Milwaukee Bucks to an NBA Finals championship win over the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday. And while his life story is fascinating, heart-warming and remarkable, the religious life of Giannis is less well known. The now 26-year-old Giannis became a Christian and devout member of the Greek Orthodox Church as a young person and continues to acknowledge his Christian faith.
It was a midsummer Sunday and the often sparsely populated sanctuary at Lakeview Moravian Community Church on Tulane Avenue on Madison’s east side was pretty much full with about 60 people present. It was not just the Moravians, though. The crowd included people from Zion Lutheran Church, which has been on the near East Side since 1890 – people who had just left their church building on Linden Avenue near the Barrymore Theater. Read more of this story.
A Wisconsin baby born at 21 weeks and two days has set the Guinness World Record for being the most premature baby to survive in an amazing story that is being celebrated by the pro-life community.
ROXBURY — Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison celebrated Mass for the faithful at St. Norbert Church in Roxbury on June 6, the day marking Corpus Christi and the Feast Day of St. Norbert, but also special this year as St. Norbert celebrates its 175th Anniversary. Recognized as the oldest parish in Dane County, St. Norbert has a continuous history dating to 1846, back when James K. Polk was the 11th President of the United States and 12 years before Wisconsin officially became a state. The current church building saw its cornerstone laid in 1856.