About Me

My name is Father Steve Macias and I am a Priest in California’s Silicon Valley.


I am the Headmaster at Canterbury Christian School and Rector of Saint Paul’s Anglican Church.


I am a presbyter (priest/pastor/minister) in the Reformed Episcopal Church, a founding jurisdiction of the Anglican Church in North America.


Read More

Stay Connected

    A Reformed Episcopal Priest & Classical Educator

    Church of South India in the Bay Area

    I had some friends from Kerala, India visit us at St. Paul’s Anglican Church Los Altos. They are part of Church of South India in the Madhya Kerala Diocese. Their Achen Rev. Aby Thomas is currently leading a congregation in Los Angeles called St. Peters and now exploring the idea of a Malayalam service for the Bay Area. Malayalam is one of the Dravidian language primarily spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and nearby states with approximately 38 million native speakers. The services would be in their language and hosted somewhere near San Francisco or San Jose—I’ve offered St. Paul’s as a possible venue and Los Altos would be right in the middle of that target area.

    Since the mid-70s, there has been an extraordinary surge of Christians migrating from South India to the United States of America. Many of them are from churches associated with the Church of South India. Most Christians I’ve met in the Bay Area are from Kerala, including several from our Canterbury School.

    What is CSI?

    The Church of South India (CSI) was established in 1947 as a result of the union of several Protestant denominations in South India, including Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists. It has a close relationship with the Anglican Communion as it inherited many of its liturgical and ecclesiastical practices from the Anglican Church, and it maintains full communion with the Anglican Communion and their service follows a structure very similar to the Book of Common Prayer.

    Their Bishop (Madhya Kerala Diocese) is Rt. Rev. Dr Malayil Sabu K. Cherian and he is visiting the Bay Area the first weekend of Sept and will lead a Malayalam service here in the Bay Area.

    Bishop Malayil Sabu K. Cherian

    Leslie Newbigin and CSI

    Leslie Newbigin (1909-1998) was a British Christian theologian and missionary who played a significant role in the development of the Church of South India (CSI). I first read his work and began studying him a decade back and wrote some about his role in the founding of CSI here:

    3 Comments

      SOJAN

      5th Oct 2023 - 11:06 am

      Good Greetings,
      This is such a great initiative.
      I belong to CSI and live in Bay area. Me and family would like to attend CSI service in Malayalam. Where do I get more info regarding this

    Leave a reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

    I help Christians discover their calling in God’s Kingdom so that they may lead purpose-filled lives with victory, hope, and abundance.

    About Me

    Father Steve Macias is an Anglican priest in the Reformed Episcopal Church (ACNA). He is the Headmaster of Canterbury School and Rector of Saint Paul’s Anglican Church. He is married to Sarah and the father to Athanasius, Anselm, Assumpta, Basil and Zoe. His professional work consulting with political campaigns, leading nonprofit organizations, and in the California State Capitol has been recognized by The Los Angeles Times, National Review Magazine, Our Sunday Visitor, The Chalcedon Foundation, and numerous online and print publications. You can reach him on twitter @stevemacias.

    ×