St. Barnabas Episcopal Church

08/19/2026

08/19/2026

San Diego Philharmonic is holding a benefit concert to support a Tijuana shelter for women and children, Comunidad de Luz, on Saturday, August 8 at 5:00 PM at St. Paul's Cathedral.

08/19/2026

Community news, local events, and public safety announcements affecting the area.

08/17/2026

St. Barnabas Episcopal Church Food Bank: 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Borrego Springs Community Resource Center.

Food available includes:

* Proteins
* Fresh produce
* Pantry staples

In partnership with the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank.

Check on social media for updates.

08/16/2026

Join us for a traditional Episcopal service with scripture readings, hymns, and a sermon focused on community and faith.

07/23/2026

St. Barnabas Episcopal Church is grateful to continue growing its partnership with Rostros y Corazón by offering a regular Eucharist service on the first and third Wednesday of each month in Salton City. Together, we’re building community through worship, fellowship, and connection across our neighboring desert communities. All are welcome. ❤️✝️

07/06/2026

“The Good Samaritan”
“One does not have a neighbor; I make myself someone’s neighbor” -Paul Ricœur

This parable from Luke 10 is considered one of the most well known in the gospels. Like many other Christians, I have heard this story hundreds of times. However, it wasn’t until adulthood a mentor gave me a more significant understanding of this story.

When an expert in religious law, a lawyer, asks Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”, Jesus answers him with this parable. A man traveling down a well known dangerous road from Jerusalem to Jericho is ambushed by robbers, who steal his possessions, and beat him leaving him “half dead.” Two members of the lawyer’s own religious class pass the man by but the one who does stop is an outsider, a Samaritan, who takes pity on the man, caring for his wounds, and takes him on his donkey to a nearby inn. He is the true neighbor. Jesus tells them to go and do likewise. The Jewish listeners would have winched because at the time Samaritans were considered a member of an excluded group, an ‘other’. Jesus is giving the lawyer a lesson in God’s law of love.

In his short essay on this parable Paul Ricouer notes that the Gospel would completely condemn the modern world. Jesus is telling us that we don’t simply HAVE neighbors. We MAKE ourselves someone’s neighbor. This is a very anti-modern attitude. Through a modern world of fences, borders, screens, social media, ring cameras, automobiles, etc. we are increasingly living in an age of a dehumanized world of abstract, anonymous and distant relationships. Many often using, religion, politics or “the law” to distance themselves from the wounded and most vulnerable people in our communities. Immigrants, refugees, single mothers, the unhoused, and those in prison. Like all of the parables, Jesus is using this one for the church to imagine the kind of community it is called to be. The parables are meant to be lived. If you want to love your neighbor you are going to have to go make yourself one.

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07/06/2026

This is Fr. David’s expression after he tells a “funny” joke…..Always fun here.

07/02/2026

You’ve heard the phrase “the dog days of summer”, those heavy, hot weeks of July and August when even the dogs seem to give up and flop onto the nearest patch of shade. But the name actually comes from Sirius, the bright “dog star” in Canis Major, rising with the sun and signaling the most sweltering stretch of the season.

Join us for a traditional Episcopal service with scripture readings, hymns, and a sermon focused on community and faith.