by Patricia Templeton | Sep 5, 2025 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Good morning, everyone. I promise that this will be the last Bella update for a while, but did want you to know that we have a crate courtesy of Elise McIntyre. Thank you, Elise.
by Patricia Templeton | Sep 4, 2025 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Bella made it through her surgery. I picked her up at the clinic in Alpharetta at 9 p.m. Now we are at church. I will spend the night with her. This is going to be a long recovery. She needs to be confined to a crate for six weeks. (I wish they had told...
by Patricia Templeton | Sep 4, 2025 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, The calendar says it is still summer, but Labor Day signals the start of fall, no matter what the weather is. And this week even the weather is giving us hints that summer is coming to an end. No matter how old we are, or no matter how long it has been...
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 31, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Proper 17CAugust 31, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton It is one of the most basic tenets of scripture in both the Old and New Testaments — hospitality to the stranger. Abraham and Sarah are the first in scripture to model it. Abraham is sitting...
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 27, 2025 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
“A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.” — Jeremiah 31:15 It has become part of the annual back-to-school ritual....
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 24, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Proper 16CAugust 24, 2025St. Dunstan’sThe Rev. Patricia Templeton Eighteen years. For 18 years the woman has not been able to stand up straight. For 18 years she has been hunched over, her back so bent that all she can see is the ground around her. For 18 years...
by Patricia Templeton | Aug 19, 2025 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, It is good to be back in the office this week after some time away. As I’ve frequently said, the only thing better than vacation is getting to come back to a job you love. The last couple of weeks I was able to really be away, including some time...
by Patricia Templeton | Jul 27, 2025 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Proper 12cJuly 27, 2025St. Dunstan’s The Rev. Patricia Templeton Years ago, a woman’s magazine, one of those that you could see at the supermarket checkout line, had a regular feature entitled “Can this marriage be saved?” In effect, that is the question posed in the...
