The Bishop’s Blog
Our Antidote to Dread: A Christmas Message
On behalf of all of us at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park; from Kathy Hannigan O'Connor’s and my home to yours; in our companionship along the broad...
St. Gregory’s Church, Long Beach
One hears the same thing over and over about St. Gregory's Episcopal Church, Long Beach, CA. Once people visit, they tend to stay. They’re right....
Chamber Music OC
Ukrainian composer Vasyl Barvinsky, who died in 1963, was jailed by Stalin for ten years, for imaginary political crimes of the type that paranoid...
Daily prayer 12-18-22
Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation, that your Son Jesus Christ, at his coming, may find in us a mansion prepared for...
Charles Dickens and the uncommon strength of memory
Like the Nativity narratives in Matthew and Luke, Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” reveals something new every time. Leaping from the page as I...