Creating Change

Dear ones, I so appreciated all the feedback from my sermon last Sunday, which you can find on video here and on the blog here. It was great to have so many folks express interest after the service in getting involved, and we even had some new pledges! Thank you. I do want to assure … READ MORE…

How to tell your story

As we told you previously, the history committee is collecting stories of SPC.  Here are some prompts that may help you. Everyone’s story is important, wherever you see yourself– congregant, chorister, visitor, clergy, staff….  The community is the whole body of us.  Please help us tell the story of all of us! Why and when did … READ MORE…

Visit our new library!

John Pagenkopp writes, After almost a year of work, the expanded and refurbished Cathedral Library is now available to all parishioners!  We are located under the Great Hall in the room that used to be the bishop’s office. The collection has now grown to about 2,000 books. There is an on-line catalog that will be … READ MORE…

A sort of Eulogy

Robert Heylmun reflects on loss. We never get used to it. The news of a friend’s death, I mean. As someone in his 70s, I’d think that some amount of immunity from the profound feeling of loss would have accrued, would have allowed me to take in the news with a dignified equanimity. Pauline’s death … READ MORE…

The Sunday Sermon: Living Together

Easter 7A, May 28, 2017St. Paul’s San Diego John 17:1-11 Community is the essence of living in residential seminary. Some have said it is like living in a fishbowl. You get thrown into this place from your previously secular life with all these other people who are very different from you and then you are … READ MORE…

Saturday at 5pm

Did you know we have a quiet Saturday 5pm Eucharist in the chapel? This may be just the service you are looking for.  Jim Greer shares more: My grandmother use to say, those who go to church on Sunday at 10:00 am love the music and those who go at 8 love the Word, but … READ MORE…

Instructions for Life

Several years ago I was asked to deliver the Baccalaureate address for my school. I was honored of course but what do you say to young people that they’ll actually hear and put to use? “Hang on tight” came to mind, and “check the label”, and of course “Broken hearts mend”. But something happened as … READ MORE…