[The Episcopal News – April 27, 2022] The 1992 Los Angeles riots – which left 63 dead and property damage exceeding $1 billion during five days of reaction to the April 29 acquittal of police officers charged with beating Rodney King – compelled local Episcopalians into action that continues to work for economic and racial […]
[The Episcopal News] When – 125 years ago today – Bishop Joseph Horsfall Johnson addressed the first convention meeting of his new Southern California diocese named for the angels, he invoked the heavenly hosts’ familiar greeting, “Fear not!” Seeking to inspire courage among pioneering delegates, Johnson suggested for the fledgling Diocese of Los Angeles a […]
“Spanish Influenza – Pneumonia.” Handwritten as the cause of death on Oct. 19, 1918 of 29-year-old George Rasmussen in Los Angeles amid an emerging global pandemic, this entry is recorded in the register of Hollywood’s St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church, then an active mission congregation bound for parish status in 1920-21. A few lines […]
