Ginter Park Presbyterian Church

Seventh and Final in a Series What Does Easter Mean to Me at This Point in My Life? Excellent question. The question, of course, presupposes that our understanding of Easter will change depending on context: on what’s going on within and without each of us at any given point. Later in his life, Rubem Alves put it this way: “Being a poet, I don’t know how to talk scientifically about Christianity. I can only talk about it as it is reflected in the mirror of my body, through ti

Sixth in a Series In worship on May 3, Carla asked a few church family members to share the meaning they were finding in Easter. She liked what was said enough to suggest we publish the reflections here. We’re posting one each day. I have heard many times in my life that we are resurrection people. Where did I hear that? Maybe in Sunday school because I had great Sunday school teachers. Maybe it was in a sermon, because I have heard many great Presbyterian sermons in my life.

Fifth in a Series In worship on May 3, Carla asked a few church family members to share the meaning they were finding in Easter. She liked what was said enough to suggest we publish the reflections here. We’re posting one each day. If you have lived through a time of any physical injury, you would know what it means to go through suffering and being healed from the wound and the pain of those moments. This semester I am studying Cross Examination, and that has taken me on a s

Fourth in a Series In worship on May 3, Carla asked a few church family members to share the meaning they were finding in Easter. She liked what was said enough to suggest we publish the reflections here. We’re posting one each day. One rainy Wednesday a couple of years ago, I rode with my sister and my oldest son to Oxford, North Carolina. We wanted to see where my great great grandfather had lived and died, where he’d owned a fair amount of property, and where he had enslav