Ginter Park Presbyterian Church

It is difficult to write briefly about the Sydnors! Margaret, at age 98, does not attend all of our worship services, but reads Carla’s...

That title would suggest a simple idea, a seemingly agreeable one. Yet the words came from Abraham Lincoln as a vision for human rights...

“I take Communion. I just don’t get Communion.” That statement fits across many – most – years of my life. As a little kid in church, I...

Would you believe Betsy Rice’s faith is open to discussion? Betsy, who’s at church most anytime the door’s unlocked; Betsy, who stands...

I watched from the side of the museum gallery as the team found the painting needed to crack the code. They gathered around the clue, and...

When Doug Brown first told me that he directs a choir for 3-5 year olds, I figured he was either intrepid or insane.  Take, for example,...

Blogger’s note: My memories of GPPC are from the decade of the 1960s, just prior to my leaving Richmond after graduating college in...

Deborah and Matthew know well the questions we ask young children when a baby is baptized at GPPC: Do you promise to be a friend to him?...

Around the time the Trayvon Martin case was making headlines, I started thinking a lot about white privilege. When you’re white in a...

When I was a boy back there in Floyd, Va., (population 500, one stoplight) tent revivals made week-long stops in town once or twice each...

I’ve been thinking about it for a while now, and it seems to me that God has one very simple message: love one another. Everything else...

Call us the Terrific Three, the Teen Triumvirate, or the Unholy Trinity if you like. Back then, for a golden summer before our high...

“I hate Christmas.” That’s what my dad said after I criticized the way he had arranged the little snow village on top of my grandparent’s...

One of the few Christmas decorations that Steven and I put up this year was a strand of white icicle lights, framing the large window in...

My goal for Thanksgiving vacation was to learn how to fold paper cranes. My son Elijah laughed at me when I told him, but really: that...

Here are the seasons of autumn at my house. The last day of September through the 20th of November comprises Walker birthday season: all...

Five of my children play Suzuki strings; two girls play violin, two play viola, and one plays the cello.  The Suzuki program is rather...

As part of our stewardship season, we are reflecting on the values into which we try to live at GPPC.  Michelle Freeman Owens shared...

I never can remember what year I joined Ginter Park; it was either 1999 or 2000. The exact date doesn’t matter, of course. I do remember...

When Julia and Zuzu were younger, one of my favorite books to read with them was a picture book in poetry form called The Sound of Day,...