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by the Rev. Mauricio Wilson

February is here once again, and as we all know, it is the quickest one that goes away. Even this year, when it has 29 days, it is still the shortest month of the year. As you also know, February is Black History Month in the United States. It is a month set aside to educate society about the significant contributions of people of African descent.

by the Rev. Anne Jensen

This Lent season, we’re offering two opportunities for learning, sharing and growing.

Wednesdays, we will have a program that begins with Evening Prayer at 6:30 p.m. followed by a soup supper in the Parish Hall and then looking at Embracing the Prophets in Contemporary Culture by Walter Brueggemann.

We have posted the sermons from Fr. Mauricio from October 9 and 16 on our online sermon page.  You can subscribe to these via iTunes or listen online by clicking "pod."  Try it out!

Oct. 2nd, 2011

By The Reverend W. Mark Richardson, Ph.D.
Professor of Theology
The General Theological Seminary, New York

Sermon delivered on Sept. 11, 2011
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Oakland

By Marilyn Sharpe, Vibrant Faith Ministries

Edited by Liz Hook 

Recently, having lunch with five friends from my college days, the conversation turned to the headlines of the day.  Some of my friends worried about the negative news and longed for simpler times, the good old days, a kinder world.  Pondering these things, I decided to look into the news and headlines of the first thirty years of St. Paul’s, 1871 to 1901.  Are you ready for this?

      Pride Month has arrived.  In the ear of my mind saying this sounds strange.  It is strange in the same way “Black History Month” sounds strange.   Should the celebration of the joy and wonder in whom we are and how God has made each of us be limited to one month?  Are 30 days enough?  Why not 365 days of pride celebration?

Edited by Carolyn Knapp