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Reclaiming Jesus
We are living through perilous and polarizing times as a nation, with a dangerous crisis of moral and political leadership at the highest levels of our government and in our churches. We believe the soul of the nation and the integrity of faith are now at stake. It is...
The Bellows September 2018
Time, Talent, and Treasure For the last year we have been honoring stewards of St. Dunstan’s. You remember. We celebrated the choir, ushers, bakers, acolytes, the lay-readers, lectors, altar guild, flower guild, the people who support our Syrian family, Family...
Gospel in Action
St. Dunstan's helped supply 300 backpacks filled with toiletries and clothing to hand out to immigrants who are released from a detention center in South Georgia. [gallery link="file"...
Reclaiming Jesus Faith Statement
The following is an excerpt from Sunday 5/20/18's sermon by Reverend Tricia Templeton. "The signers of the Reclaiming Jesus statement call on all of us to face these questions: Who is Jesus for us today? What does our loyalty to Christ require from us at this moment...
The Bellows May 2018
Summer Reading By the end of this month school will be over and vacations will be beginning. Summer’s relaxed pace seems meant for reading – on the beach, by the pool, on planes, or long, lazy summer evenings. Here are a few of the books I’ve enjoyed over the past...
The Bellows – March 2018
The Last Week The last week of March this year is Holy Week, the time that we remember the last week of Jesus’ life. Many of us have heard the stories of that week so often that we can easily become immune to their horror. We let the joyous news of Jesus’...
The Bellows Feb 2018
Observing a Holy Lent During the Ash Wednesday service each year we are invited to the observation of a holy Lent, marked by self-examination and repentance; prayers, fasting, and self-denial; and reading and meditating on God’s holy Word. At St. Dunstan’s we offer a...
2017 Christmas Pageant
DYNAMITE HILL – FOUNTAIN HEIGHTS IN THE 1950’S
WHITE PRIVILEGE IN MID-CENTURY BIRMINGHAM1 Joseph Monti Four Little Girls2 It was during the Sunday school hour on September 15, 1963 at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama, directly across from Kelly Ingram Park, the only park in downtown Birmingham...
The Bellows – December 2017
Lighten Our Darkness I took this photo in Nashville last August during the solar eclipse. Even though it is a summer photo, it has become for me this year a symbol of Advent. Epiphany, the church season after Christmas, is often known as the season of light. Advent,...