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Preparing for Worship
By R.G. Huff. It’s Super Bowl Sunday. It’s the last Sunday before Ariel, our new minister of music, starts. Timothy is back from preaching at St. Bart’s Cathedral in New York, and it’s Transfiguration Sunday in the lectionary. I have to admit: I understand the first...
I Am Wilshire: Judy Coleman
Hometown: Abilene, Texas; Present city: Dallas; Education: Hardin Simmons University, B.S., Education; Southern Methodist University, M.L.A. Tell us about your family. I have two younger sisters and one brother, two grown children, Robert and Claire, and three...
Faith in 3D presents “The Christians”
Wilshire’s Faith in 3D initiative will present The Christians, a dramatic play by Lucas Hnath, on Thursday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 17, at 2:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary. Nancy Poynter is directing the cast of five Wilshire actors, and the show includes a...
Preparing for Worship
In looking over this morning’s service, I was immediately struck by the words our Youth Choir will be singing in the Call To Worship: “In the midst of pain, I choose love … in the midst of war, I choose peace … when my world falls down, I will rise.” These words are...
I Am Wilshire: Scott Spreier
Hometown: Jetmore, Kansas; Present City: Dallas; Education: University of Kansas; Profession: Consultant and writer; Tell us about your family. Jeanne and I have been married 38 years. Our three wonderful kids (Mary Lu, who works for the American Heart Association and...
A note from Charlie Fuller
By: Charlie Fuller. My dear, wonderful, and new-to-me Wilshire family: It all began with a phone call. Your gifted, loving and simply wonderful pastor, Timothy, asked if I’d be willing to come to Dallas and talk about helping with a music interim. I’m so glad I said,...