About the Author

The Rev. Blake Sawicky is rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley, California, where he has served since 2018. He was born in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and holds degrees from Wheaton College (IL), University College London, and Yale (Berkeley Divinity School). He was ordained priest in 2012, and before arriving at St. Mark’s served at Saint John’s Cathedral in Denver, S. Stephen’s in Providence, and St. Michael & St. George in St. Louis. Fr. Blake is a clergy member of the Association of Anglican Musicians, a priest associate of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, and a regular retreatant at the Benedictine Monastery of Christ in the Desert, in Abiquiu, New Mexico.