Hay algo muy apropiado en ordenar a un diácono al principio de Adviento. El camino de Adviento nos lleva a un humilde establo, en busca del príncipe de la paz. […]

Advent is coming… soon and very soon! I have been struck this year by the wide range of possibilities to help all of us prepare. Augsburg Fortress offered a deck […]

Our calendar of saints remembers Leo the Great today, even though I don’t think there’s a single Episcopal church named for him. He lived from about 400 to 461, at […]

Good afternoon, fearless love diocese! This diocese may be headquartered in San Diego, yet we include communities from as far north as Lake Elsinore, Menifee, and Hemet, east to Indio, […]

The Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, assisting bishop of San Diego, speaks on “Women and Leadership: #MeToo > We Together” on October 4, 2018 at the monthly meeting of Women […]

God weeps when his children destroy each other. Sibling rivalry has been with us since Cain and Abel, and we will have no peace until we learn that we are loved […]

We live in a time of heightened disagreement and increasingly disagreeable modes of communication. Rarely have human societies managed effective and transparent conversations that are also kind. At times we […]

Human beings and our ancestors have been migrating for millions of years, since long before we became Homo sapiens. Everyone reading this has ancestors who migrated out of Africa. The […]

My brothers and sisters in Christ, I write in response to the return of the Diocese of Cuba to The Episcopal Church after 52 years of lonely existence. When we […]

In June I wrote about revitalizing congregations and the normal process of birth, growth, and death in faith communities. In this piece, I’d like to offer some perspective about the […]