Mrs. Carroll Levien, standing committee member, died the first week of September. She was a long-time, active member of St. Dunstan’s, San Diego, and she participated fully in the following: Episcopal Community Services (ECS), Daughters of the King, Episcopal Church Women at the church-wide level, diocesan convention planning team, and the general convention deputation. She […]

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 are too concerned about how our words will be received to be sufficiently truthful; at other times we spew venom or circulate gossip without regard […]

I recently read in the Gospel of John that the disciples followed Jesus into the ship, and when a storm arose and the waves crashed over the sides, they were frightened and called out to Jesus. Jesus calmed the storm. In these troubled times which seem to me a storm, I’ve decided to trust in […]