This essay was written by Nancy Dunlop, Ph.D. They’re simply called, “the monks.” They number anywhere from 19-24 monks at any given time. And all they are doing is walking. That’s it. So far, they’ve walked through Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. They are currently making their way through Virginia, then on to Maryland, and finally, Washington D.C. Their walk will total 2,300 miles. They began Oct. 26 and intend to reach D

My father-in-law was, what you could charitably call, a character. He was an Italian American of the old school - sprawling families in multi-level homes and pots of gravy (or marinara, to the uninitiated) burbling on the stove until it reached the consistency of hot lava. He loved going out to eat Italian food, usually at someone else's expense, but would invariably peruse the menu with predictable and mounting indignation as he saw dish after dish that he could personally

We're walking a lot this spring at Delmar Pres. And I do mean a lot. Our group goal between Ash Wednesday and the CROP Hunger Walk on May 3rd is 3,273 miles. As a congregation, it's about 45 miles a day, which doesn't seem like much until you realize that it means each one of us needs to walk about a mile a day and, oh, it's already Wednesday and I haven't walked anywhere since Sunday, except from my desk to the lunch room with a side excursion to the vending machine...

Greetings to the DPC saints,      As you may have heard by now, our theme for this Lent is “Walking Our Faith.” Of course, in part that means “walking the talk,” as the saying goes; we are called to live out what we say we believe, walking the path to which we are called as disciples. But this year, we are taking it a step further, as it were. We mean to actually do some walking. On Saturday, March 14th, we will be walking the labyrinth, an opportunity to engage in some walki