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Preparing for Worship
By Katie Murray. Today is Christ the King Sunday. A relatively recent addition to the liturgical calendar, it was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925. Pius wrote in his encyclical "Quas primas" (In the first), addressing the new feast day, that God “must reign in our...
Preparing for Worship
Hot take: My least favorite thing about this upcoming holiday season is the American cultural understanding of what is appropriate to eat on Thanksgiving and Christmas. If I’m honest, I’d rather have Mariano’s fajitas for Thanksgiving and Jimmy’s lasagna for...
Wilshire Sings: Gratitude amid conflict
By Ralph Manuel. "Now thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices … and keep us in his grace, and guide us when perplexed …" —“Now Thank We All Our God” What must it be like to live in a world where war and conflict are all around us? At times we feel as if...
I Am Wilshire: Margaret Rice
Hometown: Kenedy, Texas; Present City: Dallas; Education: BS, Baylor; MRE, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; PhD, Texas A&M; Occupation: Minister and university administration/faculty; Tell us about your family. I married Gene Rice in 1976 while he was...
Preparing for Worship
For this morning’s prelude, the Wilshire Winds plays an excerpt from “The Promise of Living,” a piece American composer Aaron Copland wrote for his opera, The Tender Land. The opera tells the story of a Midwest farm family in the 1930s during the spring harvest. The...
Announcement from the Minister of Music Search and Personnel Committees
After listening to our congregation, praying, reading applications, studying responses to questions we posed to applicants and visiting with candidates, the Minister of Music Search Committee is excited to share that we have a unanimous recommendation for an...