The Rev. John Watson, priest-in-charge of two congregations and coordinator of the diocesan “Requiem or Renaissance” program, will serve as interim diocesan canon until the consecration of Bishop-elect Antonio J. Gallardo L. on July 11, Bishop John Harvey Taylor announced today. Watson will begin his interim ministry on March 1, as Canon to the Ordinary […]
God said to Moses, “I have observed the misery of my people … I have heard their cry … I know their sufferings. I will send you to liberate my people.” But Moses said to God, “If I come to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to […]
[The Episcopal News] As we approach Palm Sunday and Holy Week, I am ruminating on the meaning of “repentance.” It is a word that centers itself in our Lenten reflections, though perhaps with overemphasis on personal shortcomings. It is not that I ought not examine the things I have done and left undone. It is […]
Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to those who deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people. — Isaiah 10:1 Average daily inmate population, L.A. County jails:2013; 18,6872023; 13,871 In the first half of 2023 (through June), Los Angeles County had […]
Whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live. —Numbers 21:9 God did not send the son into the world to condemn the world… — John 3:17 There is a legend that says St. Patrick rounded up all the snakes in Ireland and drove them out, and that […]
He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of […]
When he saw them, he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were made clean. Luke 7:14 When I was in elementary school, there was a young woman who lived in my apartment building who suffered from mental illness. On her daily walks, she always had a […]
See me walking on the vacant street What is your first thought? Black kid up to no good See me, surrounded by others, my brothers What is your second thought? Black kid in some gang … Allan Williams, a parishioner at St. George’s Church in Laguna Hills, wearing a dark hoodie, covered his head as […]
Los Angeles Bishop John Harvey Taylor on Tuesday, April 20 announced Sister Patricia Sarah Terry as the chairperson of the Bishop’s Commission on Gospel Justice and Community Care, a diocesan taskforce whose mission is “to articulate a gospel vision for policing and community care; to assess people’s personal, local experiences of policing and community safety […]
Sister Patricia Sarah Terry, the new chair of the Bishop’s Commission on Gospel Justice and Community Care, grew up in the Catholic church in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood but says she has always been an Episcopalian at heart. “I claim to be a cradle Episcopalian, because I never fit with the Catholic church from the […]
