I’m thrilled to share the news that I’ve been called to be the next rector of a wonderful parish with an enormous heart: the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Santa Rosa, California. Their worship, their fellowship, and especially their care for their community (not least in the wake of October’s wildfires) make this a congregation I […]

What does it mean to be a “Prayer Book Catholic”? It means following a way of being Christian that is grounded in scripture and in the theology of the earliest centuries of the church. It means loving the sacraments, the liturgical year, and the daily rhythm of prayer. It means practicing the liturgical life of […]

I’m Stephen Shaver, an Episcopal priest and a student of liturgy in the Ph.D. program at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. This will be a place where I’ll share short thoughts as well as longer pieces of writing. Some will be more casual, some more academic, and most will probably have to do […]