Doylestown Presbyterian Church

This article is printed in the March Tidings. In his book Fatherhood, Bill Cosby speaks of times when his children were young that he started to question his intelligence as a parent. “I began entertaining these doubts,” he writes, “when my first daughter was about 18 months old. Every time I went into her room, she would take some round plastic thing from her crib and throw it on the floor. Then I would pick it up, wipe it off, and hand it back to her so that she could throw it back on the floor. “‘Don’t throw that on the floor, honey,’ I’d tell her. ‘Do you understand Dad [ ... ]

Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, Mardis Gras, Shrove Tuesday—the day before a traditional season of fasting in which people would empty their pantries of their fattiest foods and consume them without inhibition.  The tradition has grown from its origins, particularly along the streets of New Orleans, and we will mark the transition in our own way at our Shrove Tuesday pancake supper on Tuesday at 6:00 in the gym. And after Fat Tuesday comes Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.  Lent is a period of 40 days (not counting Sundays) in which Christians over the centuries have found different ways of  [ ... ]

On the home page you will find at the top of the right side a window labeled "DPC Headlines."  This window displays the two most recent articles posted on our News & Events page.  To find the News & Events page, all you need to do is click on the main menu tab labeled "News & Events" (note: you will not find this page as one of the options on the drop-down menu).  On this page you will generally find three categories of articles: announcements, news and cancellations. As with the DPC Blog, you can subscribe to the News & Events page so that as soon as new articles are poste [ ... ]