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Summary: January 3 2005 HOLY FAITH IN SANTA FE REVIEWED Southwest BookViews a quarterly publication of reviews on books in the Southwest featured a review of HOLY FAITH OF SANTA FE by Stanford Lehmberg in the summer 2004 issue The review notes Holy Faith of Santa Fe is engrossing illuminating and written in a lively narrative style this is an excellent church history The New Mexico Historical Review also reviewed HOLY FAITH OF SANTA FE Twenty some years ago Robert Torrez and I commiserated with each other about the troubles each of us was having while writing a centennial book for a parish he for San José at Los Ojos I for Immaculate Conception in Albuquerque Where had the documents gone Why are there so few pictures Who do so few past events make sense today Pastors rarely think history for they assume they’ll move on sometime soon Stanford Lehmberg has repeated a few of our complaints but with his background he has produced a very substantial book made it look easy and made it enjoyable Lehmberg former professor at Texas Austin and professor and department chair at Minnesota vacationed often in Santa Fe until he and his wife moved there for good Dr Lehmberg has benefited by twenty seven years of experience at St Clement’s Church Saint Paul MN from the viewpoint of organist and choir director In this book he has brought his deep knowledge of the reformation era English Church to bear on the problems of nineteenth and twentieth century Epsicopalianism The first three chapters from the Civil War to World War I the leading figures were local laity former Catholic priest José Manuel Gallegos groom at the first Episcopal wedding in New Mexico L Bradford Prince and his wife William G Ritch Senator and Mrs Thomas Catron Bronson Cutting and Mr And Mrs Rufus Palen a Santa Fe mover and shaker Prince appointed territorial chief justice and later territorial governor brought his immense energy and his domineering personality to bear on the priests many of whom left Santa Fe as soon as they could The second era 1918 65 saw new buildings think John Gaw Meem and the beginning of social gospel outreach to the greater community of the city and the county of Santa Fe Chapters 8 to 10 cover the troubled times of Vietnam civil rights Watergate and the open society with all their tensions The years from 1995 to the turn of the millennium present a successful but hard won return to the good times of understanding and cooperation within the congregation Historians ought to tell stories well and Lehmberg narrates the history of Santa Fe’s Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith in Spanish that’s Santa Fe The history occupies about 200 pages with 45 black and white and 19 color illustrations four appendices and a thorough index Lehmberg had the advantage of Bishop James Stoney’s and Beatrice Chauvenet’s fine books as well as good humor and dry wit in the Anglican tradition as exemplified on page 75 In September 1939 a new faucet was selected for the Sacristy for which the Holy Faith Guild paid and which the Rector installed eliminating a bill from the plumber Some readers thrive on lists of figures and derive enlightenment from them and Lehmberg embeds even these statistics in readable prose and therefore when he returns to historical narrative his accounts of ideological issues personalities and controversies as well as the history of buildings architecture and music p 8 the non statistical reader can kick back and enjoy a book that is user friendly throughout Today s Books of Sacramento CA reviewed Holy Faith of Santa Fe Exceptional The Santa Fe New Mexican also reviewed this book

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