Ginter Park Presbyterian Church

As I was considering the call to return to being a ruling Elder at GPPC, my first response was reluctance and I started stressing out...

On a fishing trip with my uncle and cousin in California several years ago, we met Dave. The story of Dave and that fishing trip probably deserves a blog post of its own, but for now I’ll just focus on the cosmic wisdom Dave shared with us. While sitting in a hot spring in the Sierra Nevada on a cool May night, we asked Dave the obligatory ice-breaking question “What do you do?” His response was life-changing: “I’m in transition.” Literally, life, changing. As I have thought

I sometimes swim with the conservatives. Because of this I get mail from time to time on the subject of Spanish speakers in our society....

“Church elder? Are you kidding me?” This was my response to my pastor’s phone call asking me to serve on the Ginter Park Presbyterian...

As I’ve worked with our youth group over the last couple years, one of the most memorable and lively conversations we’ve had was around...

“Keeper of the blog”. If you’d told me when I joined this church as a youth nearly 50 years ago I would one day serve as “keeper of the...

Before an improv show, there’s a moment when the group of improvisers is huddled together as they wait for the emcee to introduce them to...

“If she is a [insert political label], how can she call herself a Christian?!?” That question was asked in bewilderment about me during...

Editor’s Note: Growing up white in 20th century Richmond, Ginter Park Presbyterian Church’s involvement with race relations continues to evolve. Two weeks ago, the Session unanimously voted in favor of our church joining RISC (Richmonders Involved to Strengthen our Communities), a group of diverse congregations seeking to “address the root causes of injustice” in our greater community. The interest in RISC was sparked months earlier by informal conversations among a bi-racial

In my family, there are two types of people: storytellers and quilters. Every room in my parents’ home is full of both. We decorate with...

John answered and said to them all, “As for me, I baptize you with water; but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to...

I’ll know that spring has officially sprung when I can start sleeping with the windows open again. Open windows have always been one of...

Carla posed some challenging, thought-provoking questions for our opening discussion of the February Session meeting. Unfortunately, or...

I once asked my mother when I was a teenager if she had ever had a direct answer to prayer – one in which she was absolutely certain that...

“Telling Our Stories” shifts for a moment – from individuals’ stories to one of our church: an account of eating and talking that took...

Snippets from some of the year’s story tellers: January I go to church because I love the traditions and stories and the individual...

Saturday, I stood in DC and I marched. I traveled up there with a group of my classmates to join in the march planned by a group called Justice for All. The hashtag on twitter is #justice4all if you want to check them out. We got in a bus, rode to DC, joined the thousands gathered, and then we stood there. We stood in a park and were encouraged and overwhelmed by all the people standing around. As I stood in this giant block full of people, my senses were completely over

Do you have a favorite Lovefeast memory? A song, a reading, distinctive flavors, your children at a certain age? Do the services instead...

As we approach the holiday season, many people choose to engage in some sort of gratitude practice. For my family, this has traditionally...

Here’s a fun, quirky thing I’ve noticed about our new hymnals: they travel around the sanctuary. I like to read the dedication and...