Hello – This Sunday is our second annual May Day Celebration of Flowers. I encourage you to bring flowers to church, particularly if you have them in your garden. The 10am service will begin with along and a ritual honoring Mary, where you will be invited to bring your flowers up to my french wooden statue of…
Hello – I am honored to have officiated at two gay weddings at St. Paul’s and to have been an advocate for gay rights since the 1980s. Yet it is undeniable that the plain sense of a handful of passages in the Bible seem to suggest that it is against the Bible to support gay rights…
Hello – After scaling back on our usual weekly schedule for Holy Week and Easter Week, we’re back up and running starting this week. Consider joining one of our weekly prayer and learning groups: • Tuesday at 8:30am is Morning Prayer on Zoom. Email Mike Green at mjesgreen@gmail.com to get the link. • Wednesday at 10am is Bible Study in Duncan…
Hello – The major projects of the next few months can be summarized by the title Flowers and the Three “C”s C #1 is Confirmation. On Saturday, June 10th, I will be taking a contingent of youth and adults to Grace Cathedral to be Confirmed, Received or Reaffirmed. All three are rituals led by the Bishop…
Hello – Tomorrow’s Good Friday Service at noon will be live-streamed both on Facebook and on our YouTube channel, ‘St. Paul’s, San Rafael.’ It will be just over an hour long. Our Easter morning 10am service will also be live-streamed as usual. Because it is the Vigil, it will be an hour and a half. Participation in…
Hello – This is the most important week of the church calendar. We have two services coming up. Good Friday service will be at noon this Friday. It includes the bringing in of the cross. I will be preaching on the question “Why did Jesus have to die?” Easter service will be at 10am on Sunday. This…
Hello – Here’s are brief descriptions of highlights at St. Paul’s between now and Easter morning, which is April 9th. • This Sunday there will be palms so that those who would like to can make palm crosses for the following Sunday, which is Palm Sunday. I will be teaching on the stories of three controversial…
Hello – Four things: 1. Stations of the Cross will be led by Mike G. and me at 5pm today in our courtyard. We’ll set up our 14 images of the 14 stages of Jesus’ journey and walk through them with prayers, reading and silence. It takes about half an hour. 2. Tanner will be offering a St.…
Hello – Tomorrow night, Tuesday, at 7pm, I will be sharing with you three powerful passages from the letters of St. Paul that taught me who Jesus is. The class will be both in Duncan Hall and on Zoom. Here’s the link if you’d like to join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/85788399611 I’ll talk for about 20…
Lent Begins Hello – That Christian season of Lent, a season of preparation for Easter, begins to morrow. The 40 days of Lent are an echo of Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness at the beginning of his public ministry. Here are five things at St. Paul’s this week, in reverse order, to help you…