Ginter Park Presbyterian Church

About twenty years ago, I sang in a chorus that was preparing performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the...

In the fall of 2006, GPPC’s Pastor Nominating Committee set up a conference call with a candidate who sounded promising: one Carla Pratt...

I have a friend, Martha, who has as her email address “livingintheand”. When she first told me, very excitedly, about it, I thought...

Century. Half of a century. One morning last spring, it occurred to me that come the following fall, I would be a 50-year member of GPPC....

While a camper at Camp Hanover, I fell in love with Virginia’s rivers and pursued a career as an environmental biologist with the state. However, I hit the glass ceiling and was told I could never work in the field because I was a woman; so I ended up with a career teaching science. My concern for protection of our environment never wavered, and I wove it into many chemistry lessons. Today I pay attention to decisions I make every day and their impact on our planet. Plastic w

There was some real energy for titling this piece “2016 Did Not Totally Suck”. Then Carla pointed us to comments from Wendell Berry, made...

My dad and I drove down to High Point, North Carolina, a couple years ago. We were going to take a look at a pipe organ in a Methodist...

As GPPC embarks upon a new round of self-examination in terms of its future, I am reminded of an earlier time in its life of which I was...

Our pastor, Carla Pratt Keyes, offered the following thoughts – along with safety pins – during worship on November 13. We are grateful...

Some months ago I heard a contemporary praise song which had “We love you, Lord” as part of a refrain. It struck me then as shallow and...

Since moving back to Richmond after almost 20 years away, I’ve been surprised at the frequent and visceral flashbacks to my childhood and...

Being part of GPPC is being connected. This means being connected to God, your church family, the community garden, world missions, the...

This past Sunday’s emphasis on Global Mission and Peacekeeping started a chain of reflections for Glenna Finnicum, and she offered us the...

Remember the beginning of the school year when you’d be asked to tell or write how you spent your summer? And everyone groaned. Why is...

On July 14 my twin sister, Terry Pomeroy, died suddenly while snorkeling in Hawaii. We had just returned from a wonderful 11- day trip to...

A grouchy church member complained to the pastor of another church, “I just don’t get anything out of our worship services so I quit...

I’m willing to take most anything as a sign from God. It’s just up to me to recognize it and then (the hard part) interpret it. This...

I’m a very happily married – 29 years – woman with six children. My family is everything to me, and our lives circle around doing...

I am a recently retired Earth and Environmental Science high school teacher, having taught super young people at Hermitage HS on Parham...

I have been reading poetry in the mornings – not something I commonly do in life. A collection of poetry and prose entitled While Still...