The Episcopal Church has a role and responsibility to overcome racism in American culture as well as in its own structures, says a statement issued July 20 by the Black African Ministries group of the church’s Province VIII and the Western Region of the Union of Black Episcopalians. “The video of George Floyd’s excruciating eight-minute […]
Even as we believe that a Christian’s eternal citizenship is in heaven, as Christians we live out our temporal lives in this world, and it is in this life—and this world—that we are called by Christ to worship God and serve our neighbor. In the branches of the Western Christian tradition our churches represent, […]
My siblings in Christ: On behalf of all your colleagues at St. Paul’s Commons and me, midsummer blessings to you and those you love. I give thanks each day for our diocese’s faithful hearts and busy hands. By putting safety first while continuing the church’s essential work of worship and witness, its vital ministry of […]
[Episcopal News – July 13, 2020] Intriguing new ministry possibilities, police reform advocacy and action, grant opportunities and finances were on the agenda as lay and clergy representatives of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles staff, institutions and 10 geographic deaneries gathered digitally July 9 for the regular monthly diocesan council meeting. A ‘gospel […]
[The Episcopal News] – Steve usually arrives about 6 a.m. on Saturdays at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Long Beach. He showers, changes into clean clothes, eats, and then helps others do likewise. At the end of what can be exhausting but satisfying long days — the church’s shower ministry serves about 100 on an […]
Dismantling racism, homophobia and trans-phobia is the work people of faith must engage, the Rt. Rev. Deon Johnson, newly consecrated Bishop of Missouri, told Southland Episcopalians during a Sunday, June 28 digital celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month. Johnson, whose planned April 25 consecration was delayed until June 13, served as guest preacher at the annual […]
Across the Southland, Episcopal church congregations, eager to safely return to in-person worship June 21, yet facing a series of restrictions, have opted to improvise. At St. Martin in-the-Fields Church in Twentynine Palms, for example, June 21 worshippers ranged in age from 3 to 87, and for them “no music” meant “we sang with our […]
The Rev. Mary Tororiey held up a “Peace of the Lord” sign during worship Sunday, June 21, in person and via Facebook Live at the Episcopal-Lutheran ministry in Barstow. Flipping it over, a masked Tororiey also flashed the customary response, “And also with you,” to 26 people who gathered in-person and to more watching from […]
Bishop John Harvey Taylor, speaking at the June 11 digital meeting of Diocesan Council, invited Southland Episcopalians to become “co-visionaries” of a restructured, more just and prophetic church. Such restructuring would address the systemic inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent murders of George Floyd and other unarmed African Americans by white police […]
The Very Rev. Canon Gary Hall, former dean of Washington National Cathedral and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, has been called as interim dean of Bloy House (The Episcopal Theological School at Claremont), effective Aug. 1. Bishop John Harvey Taylor announced Hall’s appointment at the June 11 meeting of Diocesan Council. Hall will succeed the Very Rev. […]
