About this desk
What Mesquite and Manna is, who writes it, how an entry is put together.
Mesquite and Manna is an independent editorial journal about parish life and neighbourly life in the California desert. It is written for the reader who wants one question answered plainly: what the week of a small congregation actually contains, how a desert year marks a building and a garden, what a food pantry needs in a town of a few thousand people, how a place name on an old map reaches a modern address. The desk is not a parish, not a diocese and not an association, and it does not speak for any of them.
What the name refers to
The journal's name is its own. Nothing here should be read as the publication of any church, past or present.