Transformations and Whispers

By John A. Dalles

Thursday, September 30, 2021

World Communion Sunday is this coming Sunday

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 Sunday October 3 is World Communion Sunday.   As all my friends know, I am an amateur sleuth where World Communion Sunday is concerned.  Ba...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Looking at the Neighborhood...

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 The past week or so has brought several occasions for me to take admiring glances at our neighborhood. As you can see, it is very park like...

Collegiate Gothic Architecture Reconsidered

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About Collegiate Gothic architecture. What are your thoughts? If you had been asked that question in the first half of the 20th century, cha...
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Saturday, September 25, 2021

Charlie the gator!

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Oak Island North Carolina has been a family destination since we were expecting son John. So more than 30 years. Every year we would drive d...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

Have You Settled In...?

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That is a question I'm asked often these days.   The answer is yes, and no. Does the new house feel like home?  Are we glad we are here?...

Inspiration? You bet!

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  One of the joys of living in Central Florida all those years we were on Coble Drive was this... Whenever there was a launch from over at t...

Where are the Kids?

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In a publication this week by Pittsburgh Presbytery, one of the presbytery staff members asks and attempts to answer the  questions: Why are...
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John A. Dalles is a Presbyterian clergyman & hymn-writer. Most recently he was Interim Senior Minister of Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. A graduate of Penn State, Lancaster Seminary (MDiv) & Pittsburgh Seminary (Doctor of Ministry), he has served First Presbyterian Church of South Bend, & Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh. From 1997 through 2018, he was Senior Pastor of Wekiva Presbyterian Church in Longwood, FL. As a part of his ministry, Wekiva became the first church in the USA to present live webcasts of worship, a ministry inaugurated Sun, Jan. 2, 2005. Dalles is a writer of hymn texts. His hymns are published in hymnbooks in the USA, Canada and Australia. He has published three books of hymns, COME, O SPIRIT, SWIFT CURRENTS AND STILL WATERS, and WE TURN TO GOD. His hymn texts are also set as choral anthems by noted sacred composers. His 2009 hymn, "God Bless the Work Your People Do" won the 14th annual Macalester Plymouth United Church Hymn Contest. He is married to the former Judith Taylor; they have a son, John Taylor Dalles and a daughter, Anne Elizabeth Dalles Sandoval.
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