Tammy and Jesse's home church was fantastic ...we happened to stop in on celebration Sunday…read more Free food, rock climbing, face painting, live music inside and outside, inflatables, friendly people, sunny day, cool temps and more made this a visit to remember. Don't worry, we'll understand on our next visit if all the goodies are not included. Sharing our faith was the best part of the visit!

Do you realize how frustrating it is for someone coming to church for the first time, to hear a…read morepaster spending the entire service preaching about money. Needing more and more to fill a 2,000,000 budget? I under stand the fact a church need to sustain it self from offerings, but come on... I've never seen anything like this! Absolutely ridiculous. If it was up to paster Mark he would charge people $10 at the door to come in.

My family has been coming to City Church since 2013 when we moved to Madison…read more At first it was a little overwhelming, since it was such a big church, however, we found the little church feel within. City church is a come as you are church, there is no pressure to be anything more than you are. Greeted at the doors by friendly people who can answer questions and help, as well as coffee and the occasional snack bar set up before church. There are three Sunday services 8:30 am, 11:00, and 6:00 PM all have there own special flare! If you wanted to check the church out before walking in, feel free to Google City Church for the live Sunday morning sermon. Pastor Tom is amazing, as are so many of our pastoral staff! There is an amazing women's ministry and men's worship. I am adding photos for this week, as we have our missionaries in town. Even more activities and plenty for all ages!

I don't know what the other review is talking about in it being a bad church. I know about the…read morescandal with the hand picked pastor, and know them personally. The family recovered. Christianity is not for perfect people. That said, this church is one of the most loving, and compassionate places ever. I'm 37 now, but joined when I was 7. That church body, and the pastors it has had through the years saw me through many rough spots in my life. And my son is going to go to the school That school has an accelerated program, and sends their students to colleges all across the country, including Ivy league, and MIT. I really don't know where this other person gets their info from. I never heard of them trying to become a super church. They have a couple thousand members. But many of those members are loyal, and even when they leave have fond memories. Bad things happen, but Pastor Tom Flaherty who is the pastor there now has been with it off and on for years. And he has steadied the church like an old sea captain in rough seas. If your spirit is dry, and needs to be quenched, City Church, formerly MGT/Lake City, is the place for you!

All Saints Lutheran has a tradition service at 8:30 on Sunday and a contemporary service at 10:45.read more

Pastor Rich is a truly inspirational, genuine and caring person. He gives great sermons and really…read morecares about people and their walk in faith.

This Community Church is in a nice neighborhood and on a bus line. There is street parking only…read more I have not attended a service here. I have been here several times for rehearsals for plays I was working on. We used two different spaces for our two plays. The downstairs room is the cafeteria, with tile floors and many tables and chairs. The room on the main floor is a choir room with carpet and chairs. We could not have been happier.

When I'm feeling particularly overwhelmed by the bad news cycle, wondering how I can possibly do…read moreanything to improve the state of our world, I'm so grateful to have a community of people who are having the same conversations and who are working for more justice and inclusivity. The Religious Education program is exposing my kids to others who share my values and giving them lots of opportunities to not only engage with social justice work, but also learn more about the worlds religious traditions and increase their capacity for their own social-emotional learning. My kids love that each Sunday is choice based learning and that they can decide how they want to learn and engage. And I'm forever grateful that they have had access to OWL - an amazing inclusive lifelong comprehensive sexuality education that honors ALL individuals and prioritizes autonomy & respect for self and others. (www.uua.org/RE/owl) For our family the answer to the disconnect we feel when facing the worlds problems is to stay connected to others who share our worldview and our dedication to working for justice and peace and to connect with a community who cares about us. This is what we've found at Prairie.

Super friendly and welcoming. They do a lot of good in the communityread more

This is beautiful Holy Redeemer Church, which was built in the 1860s and is the oldest extant…read moreCatholic church in Madison, and is today part of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Parish, which has four church building (the other churches of the parish are Saint Patrick Church on East Main Street, where the parish office currently is, Saint James Church off of Mills Street sort of behind Meriter Hospital where there is also a parish school, and Saint Joseph Church south of the beltline). Holy Redeemer Church has very thick fieldstone walls with rubble fill like a medieval castle, and looks quite picturesque near the intersection of West Johnson and State Street; the interior is also quite beautiful and traditional. A Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration prayer chapel is open daily on the lower level of Holy Redeemer Church, you enter through the parking lot side of the building and turn left. The focus of this chapel is the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, people come here to visit Jesus. Anyone may visit, rules are posted for maintaining the reverence of this place of silent personal prayer. At the time that I'm writing this Holy Redeemer Church is used 24 hours a day as the site of the Adoration Chapel, and there is one scheduled Mass per week, 8 am on Saturdays. That's not a Sunday Mass, all Sunday Masses are currently at St James or St Joseph Churches and complete information about Sunday and weekday daily Masses can be found on the Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish website, https://www.guadalupemadison.org/ . I go to Sunday Mass at St James and weekday Masses at St Patrick's, as well as Saturday morning at Holy Redeemer. There are Spanish as well as English Masses--the Spanish Masses are largely at St Joseph right now. Definitely check the parish website for up to date information. Normally confessions are heard before every Mass, which makes it so much easier to go to Confession. I live in the neighborhood and am a longtime parishioner. If you live on the Isthmus or Fitchburg you probably live in our parish's territory-- please come and worship with us. Saint Raphael's Church was Madison's first Catholic church, and became the Cathedral when the Catholic Diocese (bishopric) of Madison was formed in 1946, but it burnt down by arson in 2005 and a Stations of the Cross garden now stands on its site. Whereas Saint Raphael's had a predominately Irish congregation, Holy Redeemer was built by the German Catholic immigrants. High up in its front facade, amidst chunks of local sandstone-limestone there is a carved white marble plaque reading "Domus Dei et Porta Caeli," meaning House of God and Gate of Heaven in Latin. After the destruction of Saint Raphael's, the nearby downtown parishes of Holy Redeemer and Saint Patrick's merged under the name the Cathedral Parish of Saint Raphael, serving as the temporary seat of the Bishop of Madison. More recently a different Cathedral church was designated, which is Saint Bernard's on Atwood Avenue, and thus the downtown parish was no longer the "Cathedral Parish." Saint Bernard's is now the official "seat" of the bishop's leadership of the Church in southwest Wisconsin. A new diocese-wide parish reorganization clustered four different churches, Holy Redeemer, Saint Patrick's, Saint James, and Saint Joseph into the current Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish. This name, a beloved Mexican title for Jesus' mother Mary, is fitting because today more than half of our parish's attendees are Hispanic. The latest reorganization was not due to any severe priest shortage; the larger cluster of churches is served by a team of several priests, most of them bilingual including our current main pastor Father Drew Olsen. In 2019 major restoration work was done to the exterior walls of the church, including replacing eroded local sandstone-limestone. In May of 2024 Holy Redeemer Church's wooden steeple caught fire after being struck by lightning. The building was saved thanks to the Madison Fire Department, this loss was covered by instance and a new metal-framed steeple, replicating the appearance of the original complete with a large clock, was installed in the fall of 2025. People in the neighborhood should join us for Mass at St James or Saint Joseph Church on Sundays. When or whether Sunday Mass will return to Holy Redeemer Church is unclear right now--I really think Mass needs to be available in the middle of downtown (though there is one at Saint Paul's on the University Campus, primarily intended for students) but the issue is that they wanted to consolidate people at St James for community building purposes. The Adoration Chapel at Holy Redeemer Church remains a real blessing to have in the neighborhood, that you can visit anytime.

This is not a place to go if you care about your physical health. I came there for the 9am Mass…read moreand most of the people around me were not wearing masks including a person who plopped down right beside me. I decided not to stick around to see how unsanitary the distribution of Communion would be. Even the man who appeared to be the head usher was maskless and coughing. Yuck and gross!