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Homecoming
September marks our Homecoming month where we celebrate our return and renewal to our community life together. We start the festivities with a Homecoming Picnic on September 10th after the 10:30 am service. Be sure to reserve the date! As the month progresses we will continue to hold events to honor this long-held fall tradition. [more]
This is also a time to welcome newcomer’s and take a look and the exciting witness going on here. We’re proud to announce new outreach through stewardship, ministry, great forums, youth presence and changes at the Pacific Academy of Ecclesiastical Music.
Cathedral member Christopher Harris was named the new cathedral director of Stewardship and Development, spending this fall working with David Norgard. Harris is a server, verger, present Chair of the Health Cabinet and a member of Chapter. Chris graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz, with dual degrees in Economics and Political Science in 1992.
While at Santa Cruz, he became active in campus as well as the local community politics, including a run for City Council. Following graduation, Chris relocated to San Diego to attend California Western School of Law. While there, Chris explored his passion for business development, and become a Director of Marketing for a local real estate management firm.
After passing the bar in 1997, Chris formed a successful law practice with an emphasis in real estate and later, tax law. In San Diego, Chris has stayed involved in the community, and recently served on the Board of Directors of the Alpha Project for the Homeless. Although an attorney, Chris said his passion has always been marketing and business development and he considers the opportunity to put these skills to work for the Cathedral to be a true blessing. He begins his work at the Office of Stewardship and Development confident that St. Paul’s Cathedral is uniquely positioned for continued and sustained growth, grounded in our commitment to God’s inclusive and unconditional love for all Creation. Welcome Chris!
Catherine “Cathey” Dowdle is our new cathedral intern and a life-long Episcopalian who entered the Ordination process in 2000, seeking ordination to the priesthood. She is sponsored by St. John’s, Chula Vista where she has been an active member since her arrival in Southern California from Portland, Oregon in 1983. During her tenure at St. John’s, she has served in many areas, including as President of St. Margaret’s Chapter of the Daughters of the King, as a licensed Lay Eucharistic Minister, as a Lector, on the Altar Guild, and as parish Liturgist.
David Moseley., PhD is our new resident theologian. He will continue his popular forum series “the problem with God. David is a transplant from England with undergraduate and graduate degrees in law, philosophy and theology from Magdalen College at Oxford University; and a doctorate in theology and music from Jesus College, Cambridge University. David teaches full-time in the Religious Studies Department at the Bishop's School, La Jolla, and will continue to lecture at USD part-time. He and his family attend St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Del Mar.
David is a man of many interests and passions. Among them: Global justice, poverty eradication and universal human rights, and the common threads within all great religious traditions. His research and teaching interests include: Religion and the Arts, especially Religion & Music; Philosophy of Religion; the Historical Jesus & New Testament Studies; Christology; Religion and Popular Culture; Religion and Politics/International Affairs; Religion, Violence, and Non-Violence; Religion and Postmodernism; Religion and Global Health & Development, and Poverty Eradication; and Religion and Human Rights, Peace & Social Justice.
Mike Angell, a former intern here and member of St. Paul’s, has returned from a year in Honduras and at General Convention in June, to become Chaplain at UCSD, San Diego. Mike is also going to be around the Cathedral campus doing special ministry. Mike has a passion for the global mission of the Episcopal and reaching young adults. He helped elect the first youth representative to the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church at the summer’s
General Convention in Columbus, Ohio.
