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By Nicholas Garton – Madison365.com – A few local churches are gathering on Sunday, July 27, at the Duck Pond, the home of the Madison Mallards and Madison Night Mares, for a special worship service. The service will run from 10:45-11:45 a.m. and will be followed by a Night Mares game at 1:05 p.m. The church service will be free and the game will have regularly priced tickets. Sherman Avenue United Methodist Church, Sugar River United Methodist Church, and St. John’s Lutheran Church will be involved in the worship service, with Sherman Church reverend David Hart speaking from the pulpit.…
Madison, Wis. (RNS) — As two dozen pastors, poll chaplains and other leaders gathered for a pre-election press conference outside of First United Methodist Church in Wisconsin’s capital Wednesday (Oct. 30), they got a taste of what life is like in a battleground state. As Paul Raushenbush, president of the Interfaith Alliance, a national nonprofit whose leaders were on a pro-voting tour, stepped to the microphone, some young hecklers drove by in a green SUV, flipping the faith leaders the bird and shouting, “Vote Trump.” Raushenbush waved to the hecklers and then got back to business — spreading the message…
Join Madison Area Concert Handbells for a Christmas spectacular celebrating our 25th anniversary. Featuring fresh takes on beloved holiday classics from Greensleeves to the Grinch, you won’t want to miss this performance by one of Wisconsin’s finest handbell choirs!
Daniela Jaime – Wisconsin State Journal – Imagine a Madison where the isthmus between lakes Mendota and Monona is a seeping wetland. Where cornfields stretch from Wisconsin Avenue to James Madison Park. Herds of deer gather on State Street, and waterfalls pour from Wiicawak Bay (formerly Squaw Bay) into the Yahara River. Before the first white settlers arrived in Madison in 1837, that imaginary place was real and called “Teejop” (“four lakes”) by the Ho-Chunk people, said Janice Rice, Clan Mother and Peacemaker of the Ho-Chunk Nation. Dozens of Indian mounds dotted the landscape, from Lake Mendota to Lake Kegonsa,…
Jonah plans to materialize for vacation Bible school in August, draped in seaweed with fish falling out of his beard. He’ll be an actor, of course, one of the volunteers portraying Moses, Daniel, David and Goliath for youngsters of Sugar River United Methodist Church in Verona. Read more.
As a single mother and elementary-school music teacher in Alamogordo, N.M., Cheryl Dockray usually umpires all the summer softball games she can to make ends meet.But in early June, she took a rare week off — and worked even harder than usual. With eight other adults and 13 young people from Alamogordo’s Grace United Methodist Church, she helped gut a New Orleans home that had been rotting in floodwaters for nine months. Read more.
With fall referendums looming, the Wisconsin Conference of the United Methodist Church has passed a resolution opposing attack ads and urging congregations to hold forums in neutral, public places where state voters can have respectful dialogue on constitutional amendments that would install the death penalty and deny legal status to gay marriages and civil unions. Read more.