The Stained Glass of GSP
A video walk down Grace St. Paul's center aisle, observing the lower and then upper stained glass windows, set to music played by GSP's organist, David Wachter.
The Stained Glass of GSP, Parts I-VI, by Joyce Henderson from the archives of The Briefly Newsletter, now The E-blast. Click this button below to read the fascinating details about our windows.
Diana Robertson prepared a beautiful booklet on Grace St. Paul’s Stained Glass called Guide to Stained Glass Windows, which she prepared for the Soul Sisters Gathering in May of 2026. You can read it by clicking the button below:
“… The permanent Grace St. Paul’s organ is one of the largest and finest instruments in Southern Arizona, with diverse sounds and capabilities. However, with it out of commission after a catastrophic thunderstorm in September 2025, this little historic instrument now sits in the front of the church while the grand organ is being repaired…”
Click the button below to read more about the fascinating history of this beautiful pipe organ.
The Story of Grace St. Paul's Newest Old Addition - an Organ with a Provenance
Pilgrim Souls is the story of the founding, growth, and transformation of Tucson's Grace Episcopal Church into Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church. But it is more than that too.
Grace Church was founded in the Arizona Territory just after Tucson became a city and just before the railroad and the University of Arizona came to the dusty town. The development of the three, the church, University, and city, are intertwined.
Kay W. Bigglestone is a retired teacher. She received her academic training at Oberlin College in Ohio and at The University of Arizona. In Arizona she has taught and supervised the Title VII program at Baboquivari High School on the Tohono O'odham reservation, instructed refugee and GED classes at Pima County Adult Education, and worked as an adjunct writing instructor at Pima Community College's East Campus. She is a member of Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church. She and her late husband William (Bill) made their home in Tucson since 1987, along with their son, Mark. She and Bill co-authored Tucson's Catalina Vista: The Neighborhood and Some of its People (2003).
Pilgrim Souls: The Story of Grace and St. Paul’s Episcopal Churches is available, just click the button to read.
Pilgrim Souls: The Story of Grace and St. Paul’s Episcopal Churches
Kay W. Bigglestone, Author
The Episcopal Church Comes to Arizona: The Century Old Trek of Grace Church 1874-1974
Written by Jerry Wallace, Rector of Grace Church 1946-1966.
The story of Grace Church in beginning in 1874 before Arizona’s statehood, in 1912 and before the merger with St. Paul’s in 1991.
“Downtown Tucson about the time Grace Church was starting”
Bishop Arthur B. Kinsolving, first Diocesan Bishop of Arizona and Author, The Rev. Jerry Wallace, Rector at the consecration of the third Grace Church
Grace Church Easter 1958
Grace St. Paul’s Labyrinth, 2026