On December 21, 1983, I was ordained priest while serving at the Church of the Incarnation in Dallas. Three days before, the Arctic weather sent temperature below freezing until December 30. In many ways, the city was shut-down because there was ice and snow. Father Charles Jenkins, then a rector in Arlington, Texas—now-retired bishop of Louisiana, for whom we have been praying—made it to Dallas that night. A few years ago, a man I knew when he was a teenager growing up at Incarnation began the project of getting the tapes of the-then rector’s sermons on the web. The rector was Paul Waddell Pritchartt.
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