Members of the Conference ONA Team have issued the following statement: We, the members of the Wisconsin Conference UCC Open and Affirming Team, declare that recent Supreme Court decisions allowing states to restrict the rights of transgender women and girls to...
Conference Minister Franz Rigert was among the UCC conference ministers last week who took the prophetic voice of the church to Capitol Hill, advocating forcefully for justice and peace. Here is his account of the visit. By Franz Rigert We advocated around immigration...
The Wisconsin Conference trip to Alabama sites that played key roles in the Civil Rights movement will take place from Sunday, Feb. 1, through Friday, Feb. 6. Participants will travel by bus (assuming a minimum of 30 participants) and visit sites including Dexter...
A year ago, the Rev. Dr. Christopher Ross, pastor of First Congregational UCC in Watertown, was present when neo-Nazis disrupted the community’s Pride in the Park event. That event prompted this reflection, published last August. What followed was a year of...
British soldiers probably couldn’t believe their ears on Christmas Eve 1914 as the sound of Christmas carols wafted across the battlefield from the German trenches. Soon, the two sides were shouting messages back and forth, and the next day British and German soldiers...