Parish Articles

Day: May 12, 2021

What We Get Wrong About Being a Good Samaritan

by Teshelle Combs During my junior year of college, I did something ugly. I had been having a good day that spring. The Orlando weather was finally perfect, blue skies and cool breeze. I was practically skipping along, amazed that the morning had sailed right by me. I had gotten

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Pentecost is this Sunday. What the heck is Pentecost?

by Wendy Thomas Russell From a historical perspective, Christianity didn’t start with Jesus’ birth, his death or even his storied ascension to heaven. It started with Pentecost — the day the “Holy Spirit” entered a room holding Jesus’ apostles and entered each of them, an event which — as my minister uncle tells

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Parish: ‘The Thought’ – September 9, 2024

I film this video on September 5. Yesterday, as I was holding my 2-year old grandniece in my arms, I heard news of the terrible Apalachee School shooting in Georgia by a 14-year-old who had access to an AR14 assault rifle, a semi-automatic weapon. We are still uncertain whether he

Parish: ‘The Thought’ – September 9, 2024

I film this video on September 5. Yesterday, as I was holding my 2-year old grandniece in my arms, I heard news of the terrible Apalachee School shooting in Georgia by a 14-year-old who had access to an AR14 assault rifle, a semi-automatic weapon. We are still uncertain whether he

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