Sermon by Wally Inglis at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church– Sunday, September 24, 2023 Good morning! … Aloha! ….and welcome to all … as we gather to recall an unforgettable event 40 years ago at Hale Mohalu in Pearl City. For those of…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Hale Mohalu 40th Anniversary of Eviction
Tagged with: Brian Lott, Fr. David Gierlach, Fr. Gigi Cocquoi, Hale Mohalu, Hansen's disease, John Witeck, St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church, Valerie Monson, Wally Inglis, Wallyhouse
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
We Are Called To Be Prophets, Now More Than Ever
First published on Civil Beat Sep 11, 2023. Republished here with permission. It is hard not to feel overwhelmed by the daily rush of calamities, violence and human failures. How not to despair at the willingness of too many, some…
“Look, identify, ask”–and take action
First published in the Honolulu Star Advertiser 3/9/2022. Republished here with permission. Nationally, there is the unembarrassed undermining of democracy in this country by the Republicans, an old, but no longer grand party, unwilling to denounce the indecencies of their…
Tagged with: Corruption, Gary Hooser, Lent, Red Hill, Rev. David Gierlach, Sergio Alcubilla, St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church, Vote By Mail Hawaii
Posted in 2022 Elections, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in 2022 Elections, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Guest Post: Rev. David Gierlach Good Friday 2021
“Why on earth do you call it ‘Good Friday’?,” my atheist friend demands one day. “What’s possibly ‘good’ about this day?” I suppose that’s a question we each of us have asked, if not out loud, then perhaps in the…
Tagged with: Good Friday, Honolulu, St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church
Posted in Good Friday, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Good Friday, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Guest Post: Palm Sunday at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, Honolulu
“As you all know, as you did and do and will do, in culture, we build bridges, not walls,” he said. After his performance, he gestured to the bridge to his right. “I’ve lived my life at the borders. Between…
Tagged with: Palm Sunday, Rev. David Gierlach, St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church, Yo Yo Ma
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, US Bishops
Blowing through St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church: The spirit of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin
YES! The once dilapidated rectory at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church has been given new livery and new innards, and is reborn as Honolulu’s first Catholic Worker house of hospitality. It is affectionately named “Wallyhouse” in recognition of the efforts…
Solemn Bell Ringing to Support Students Against Guns. Wed 3/14 from 10-10.17 a.m. Honolulu
This Wednesday, March 14, 2018, from 10 to 10.17 a.m. many public high schools in Hawaii are staging a walk out and silent vigil to commemorate the senseless violence that occurred a few weeks ago at the high school in…
Tagged with: Church of the Crossroads, churches bell ringing, Honolulu, St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church, Students against guns
Posted in Gun violence, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Gun violence, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Guest Post: What Jesus says about a living wage.
“The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard….When those who had started about five o’clock came, each received the usual daily wage. So when the first came, they thought…
Tagged with: Fight for $15, Living wage, Rev. David Gierlach, St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church, the parable of the workers in the vineyard
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, US Bishops
Christmas 2015. A Refugee is Born
Christmas Day sermon by Fr. David Gierlach, St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, Honolulu. Reproduced here with permission. Accepting what happens on Christmas is an uphill battle. After all, it’s quite a leap to believe in a God who becomes a human…
Tagged with: Christmas in Honolulu, David Gierlach, Honolulu, refugee crisis, St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Dawn Morais 