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Telling Our Stories
Stories of faith by members of the Ginter Park Presbyterian Church Family.
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Money Stories: Restoring
One of my earliest money stories involves shame and restoration – the theme that we explored in worship this past week and in our weekly...
Oct 2, 20203 min read
What's in Your Wallet? - a Money Stories Extra
Last week’s Money Stories zoom discussion spilled past its cutoff time into emails among the group. In the midst of those, John Marriner...
Sep 30, 20201 min read


Money Stories: Reimagining
In the Money Stories study group this week, we looked at a Leviticus passage that describes (and prescribes) the year of Jubilee....
Sep 25, 20202 min read


Money Stories: Releasing
I never realized how quietly the acquisitive consumerist values of a capitalist economy had taken up residence in my heart and soul until...
Sep 18, 20204 min read


Money Stories: Remembering
We all have a money story. Sometimes our story seems like one of scarcity, sometimes it seems like manna. Sometimes it is fearful and...
Sep 11, 20202 min read


A Kairos Statement
In this God-moment – this kairos – God is undoing us. God is remaking us. Among our congregation, as in our city and world, are members...
Aug 4, 20202 min read


Memorial Information for Dr. David Richardson
Dr. David Richardson died last weekend after a long and wonderfully full life much devoted to the care and repair of human hearts. He was Chairman of Cardiology at MCV from 1972 to 1988. Here's a memorial page where you can see David's obituary and leave a message or story for his family, if you'd like: https://www.lastingmemories.com/memorial/david-walthall-richardson We'll be remembering him and claiming Christ's promises of resurrection and eternal life this Saturday, Jul
Jul 8, 20201 min read


Joy in the Midst of Fear and Uncertainty
The struggles are real at this moment of time. Cancelled plans, grief for moments lost, fear of uncertainty, the list can be so...
May 9, 20203 min read


Quarantunes!!
Here is a Spotify playlist, called "Quarantunes", which has been compiled by our Youth. The songs on this playlist are those that speak...
May 8, 20201 min read


Reflections in the Present Time
Along the Road to Amazing It is Sunday afternoon, so a confession today seems appropriate. We are headed into Week 9 of stay-at-home in...
Apr 11, 20204 min read


More than a Basket of Fruit
Last summer, as my five sisters and I gathered to see my father through his final days, without spouses, children and various pets to...
Mar 7, 20203 min read


Going Low for Lent
The thing about Lent is the low notes. OK, it’s probably not THE thing, especially since I don’t mean low notes in a spiritual context -...
Feb 26, 20202 min read


Ann Hamric's "Last Lecture"
Last Lecture Series, 2003 - Ann's Explanation: Every year for the last 12 years at UVA, undergraduate students invite three professors to give their “Last Lecture”, and this year I was honored to be among the three. Here was my assignment: I had 20 minutes to say whatever I wanted to say to the University community if I knew it was the last lecture I could ever give. Quite a challenging premise, yes? Also, picture the setting – the University’s largest auditorium, in semi-
Feb 16, 202012 min read


Telling Our Stories - the Teen Years
We scrolled all the way down to check: “Telling Our Stories” posted its first entry in December of 2012. As the 20-teens come to an end,...
Dec 30, 20195 min read


This Christmas
Two Christmases ago, my 26-year job had just ended. Last Christmas, I was fresh into a heart condition diagnosis. This Christmas, I’m...
Dec 20, 20192 min read


Love Feast: Nothing to Be Afraid Of...
I had a college professor who proclaimed himself to be an Anglophilophobe: a person who fears people who love England. God knows there...
Dec 6, 20192 min read


Stewarding the Stuff We Think About
“Serve each other according to the gift each person has received, as faithful stewards of God’s diverse gifts.” 1 Peter 4:10 Fall is...
Oct 5, 20192 min read


Know, Serve, and Love
I want to know, serve, and love my new church - its history, its traditions, its governance, its people. Mostly its people. I am grateful...
Aug 31, 20191 min read


Love was His Meaning
"Love was His meaning." Dame Julian of Norwich When John and I were weighing our decision to move from Atlanta to Richmond to be near...
Aug 24, 20192 min read


To Die with One's Boots On, You've Got to Put 'em On!
Recently elected elders, Class of 2022, have been encouraged to make statements to the Ginter Park Presbyterian Church congregation that...
Aug 17, 20192 min read
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