by Patricia Templeton | Mar 7, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
The picture from my childhood remains amazingly clear in my mind all these years later. My illustrated Bible, given to me by my grandparents when I was three years old, has picture after picture of Jesus. There is the sweet, cherubic, haloed...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 6, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, Bulletins, News
Dear friends, I have some good news about one of our parishioners to share with you. Kristine Anderson has been nominated for the Georgia Author of the Year award in the Debut Novel category for her novel Crooked Truth. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 4, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, One of the biggest issues before the state legislature this year is voting rights. There have been 80 voting-related bills introduced in this legislative session. The nonpartisan League of Women Voters has this to say about the bills: “Nearly all...
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 3, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, This morning in our monthly clergy Zoom call with the bishop we received some encouraging news. Numbers of covid cases and related deaths are declining, and more people are getting the vaccines (although Georgia is near the bottom of the list there)....
by Patricia Templeton | Mar 1, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, The first “aha” moment came when the flight attendant handed out customs forms as the plane neared Bangkok.”I don’t have any foreign currency to declare,” I said. “All my money is American.” My seatmate laughed,...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 28, 2021 | Sermons, Tricia's Sermons
Lent this year seems to be a time of waiting. We’re waiting on vaccines, waiting for the pandemic to be over, waiting to get back to our normal lives, waiting to see one another in person, to go to church, to travel....
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 24, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Two years ago a group from St. Dunstan’s spent most of the Saturdays in Lent visiting the sites of lynchings in Fulton County. The purpose of these visits was to remember what had happened at each of these sites, to remember those who died in such...
by Patricia Templeton | Feb 22, 2021 | ANNOUNCEMENTS, News
Dear friends, Sometime today the official death toll from the coronavirus in this country is expected to surpass the 500,000 mark. That is the official count. Public health experts say the reality is many more than that. Half a million people dead is a number that is...
