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Watch episode 1 of 6 of St. Stephens’ Lenten web series, Against Tyranny, a conversation about faith and discipleship and public life reflected against scriptre and Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny. Buy the book locally HERE. Each week, Steve and Ethan join with a different guest–a friend or colleague. This week we have with us Mary…

Click the button below to download.To the left: artwork by Maya M. for March 4th “Night”Download Lenten Devotional Why Create? It is my belief that the Christian life of faith and discipleship is primarily a life of imagination. We live in a world that is at the same time, good and broken, healing and hurting,…

Mark your calendars for February 17th for Ash Wednesday–the beginning of Lent. Lent is a season wherein we walk with Jesus through his forty days in the wilderness and it is traditionally a penitential and quiet time of fasting or prayer or contemplation. During this season of COVID-19, we won’t be able to have Ash…

Last year, 2020, was tough for a whole host of reasons — wildfires, pandemic, elections, and more. Our efforts, as St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Orinda, to be and to remain a connected community of worshippers and learners and disciples was met with new challenges that required adaptive measures. Below is a non-exhaustive list of…

Good people of St Stephen’s, Greetings. This coming Sunday we are holding our annual Parish Meeting, in true Pandemic fashion, by Zoom. The Parish Meeting is the means by which the congregation of St Stephen’s attends to matters of its collective business: we hear reports from parish leadership, elect new Vestry members, and receive the…

St. Stephen’s Orinda invites you to participate in our Lenten Daily Devotional: Create. We are putting together a series of daily contributions, reflections, artistic offerings by parishioners and staff and community members of all ages which will then be shared as a daily opportunity for reflection throughout the 40 some-odd days of the Lenten season. The invitation…