[Original By www.goodgoodgood.co] St. John\u2019s Lutheran Church has sat on a downtown corner of Madison, Wisconsin \u2014 just three blocks from the state Capitol \u2014 for nearly 170 years.<\/p>\n
But its leaders are now working to demolish it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSt. John\u2019s has always been a place focused on refuge, serving the poor, and meeting people where they are,\u201d the church\u2019s pastor, Rev. Peter Beeson, said in a fundraising video.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday, we’re looking at adapting our building in the most audacious way yet: by tearing it down to build 110 units of affordable housing, plus worship and community space.\u201d — Read the Full Article<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Original By www.goodgoodgood.co] St. John\u2019s Lutheran Church has sat on a downtown corner of Madison, Wisconsin \u2014 just three blocks from the state Capitol \u2014 for nearly 170 years. But its leaders are now working to demolish it. \u201cSt. John\u2019s has always been a place focused on refuge, serving the poor, and meeting people whereContinue reading Church to demolish existing worship space, creating 110 units of affordable housing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,46,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external-articles","category-church","category-socio-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}