Contact: 424 Via de la Valle, Solana Beach 858-755-2855 www.calvarylutheranchurch.orgMembership: 350-400Pastor: Mark DonaldAge: 57Born: San DiegoFormation: Gustavus Adolphus, St. Peter, MN; University of Minnesota; Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN Years Ordained: 23San Diego Reader: What’s the …
Articles by Joseph O'Brien
NecrologicalThe friar had said his paternosters dulyAnd scourged his limbs, and afterwards would have slept;But with much riddling his head became unruly,He arose, from the quiet monastery he crept.Dawn lightened the place where the battle …
Contact: 2324 Miller, Ave., Escondido 760-737-0393 www.chaliceuucongregation.orgMembership: 160Pastor: Sharon WylieAge: 53Born: San DiegoFormation: Pomona College, Claremont; Starr King School for the Ministry, BerkeleyYears Ordained: 12San Diego Reader: What’s your main concern as a member of …
1.When night's blacke Mantle could most darknesse prove,And sleepe (deaths Image) did my senses hyre,From Knowledge of my selfe, then thoughts did moveSwifter then those, most [swiftnesse] neede require.In sleepe, a Chariot drawne by wing'd …
Contact: 1625 Pacific Beach Dr., San Diego 858-945-0777 www.pacificlifechurch.orgMembership: 150 Pastor: Steve BombaciAge: 70 Born: San JoseFormation: Bethany Bible College, Scotts Valley (now closed); Vanguard University, Costa MesaYears Ordained: 41San Diego Reader: What’s your favorite …
When Lovely Woman Stoops to FollyWhen lovely woman stoops to folly,And finds too late that men betray,What charm can sooth her melancholy,What art can wash her guilt away?The only art her guilt to cover,To hide …
The Golden LandO sweet September in the valleyCarved through the green hills, sheer and straight,Where the tall trees crowd round and sallyDown the slope sides, with stately gaitAnd sylvan dance: and in the hollowSilver voices …
Contact: 5050 Milton St., San Diego 619-276-4567 www.saintdavidschurch.comMembership: 120 (Attendance: 55-60) Interim Priest-in-Charge: Father Kirby M. SmithAge: 71Born: Mount Clemens, MIFormation: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Lieutenant, U.S. Army (1976-1980); University of San Diego-Knauss School of Business; …
Seasons, Mirrors -for Shelia Sherwin, on her sixtieth birthdayIWe tell ourselves: objects in mirrors areAlways forced revisions of …