Simpler Living Summer Event reminders

From Simpler Living our Creation Care Ministry The EDSD Summer Environmental Film Series starts on Wednesday, June 24.  There’s still time to sign up! CLICK HERE Cooked: Survival by Zip Code: CLICK HERE to watch the trailer. Full length film is 120 minutes follow by a twenty minute discussion. Ocean Month Harbor Island Walk- join us … READ MORE…

The Sunday Sermon: The Mystery of the Trinity

Trinity Sunday, June 12, 2022Penelope Bridges Every year on the Sunday after Pentecost we celebrate the Holy Trinity. Of course we celebrate our Trinitarian God every Sunday, as we typically end our prayers in the name of Jesus who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit. But today we are supposed to … READ MORE…

Dean’s Letter: New Doors

Hello St. Paul’s, After twenty plus years of dreams, plans, and hard work, we have arrived at a Kairos moment to relaunch our identity as the Cathedral for the City, offering new doors to walk through and new opportunities for the community around us to share in our life and benefit from our facility. We … READ MORE…

Ocean Month

From our Simpler Living Creation Care ministry Action: National Ocean Month/From Creation Justice Ministries June 1 marked the start of Ocean Month, a time when we step back to appreciate God’s marine creation and take action to protect it.  When we think of God’s creation, it is easy to imagine forests and other green spaces … READ MORE…

History of Juneteenth

From our Sacred Ground in Action ministry (SGIA)Juneteenth! You may know about this important date in our history, celebrated each year on June 19: do you know the WHOLE story? Please learn more about this critical date for our neighbors in this evocative short clip.  Then register for the Juneteenth 10-Day Reading Plan: meditations that … READ MORE…

Letter from Kathleen & Bob: Grand Opening Week Extravaganza

Kathleen Burgess and Bob Oslie tell us more about the Grand Opening Week Extravaganza! Click here for the week’s schedule. Rev. Richard: Hello, and welcome to this week’s Dean’s letter brought to you by Kathleen Burgess and Bob Oslie, two of our favorites around here. We’re going to be talking a little bit about the … READ MORE…

Action against Fracking and Prayer

From our Simpler Living Creation Care ministry:Sempra is a natural (fracked) gas infrastructure company building pipelines and export terminals to export mostly methane to China.  Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas, up to 80x as potent as CO2 in the short term, so we need to challenge the myth that natural gas is a … READ MORE…

Sacred Ground In Action (SGIA) highlights Knowledge Through Culture!

So much of what we learn about our history takes place through the arts.  There’s still time to get tickets for transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project performance of Echoes of Lemon Grove.  The work is inspired by the local history of the 1931 Lemon Grove Incident involving a school desegregation court case.  Themes include identity, family, cultural histories, rials … READ MORE…

Dean’s Letter: The Shape of our Liturgy

Hello St Paul’s, Anyone who attends an Episcopal Sunday service more than once or twice knows that we have a certain structure to our worship services. The Book of Common Prayer is a great treasure, not least because it provides this structure, so that clergy don’t have to invent the service from whole cloth each … READ MORE…