For St. Luke’s of the Mountains in La Crescenta, California, leaning into a message of love means blending an Episcopal ethos with a handful of new and unexplored traditions.
Jacob Andrew Smith: “With all of us there is something completely unmanageable, and it was this unmanageability that brought Sam [Shoemaker] to the Christian faith.”
For Christian Wood, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Tampa, Florida, being a rector is a lot like being married: You have to figure out what your partner wants.
“Those who were already dependent on USAID are now in crisis. There’s no food, no medicine. People are dying from cholera and malaria…What are they supposed to do?” asked Lina Ajaak of DC’s South Sudanese Community Association.
When St. Peter’s in the Woods went through a season of re-envisioning in 2024, the rector, vestry, and entire parish realized the importance of caring for the land.
