Protesters were gathered in downtown Los Angeles June 8 to mourn George Floyd, but the well-known details of his death under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer were magnified when men and women stepped up to microphones mounted on a red flatbed truck and told stories of their own relatives whose lives were ended […]
From Ojai to Santa Clarita to Covina, Southland Episcopalians have joined the groundswell of protests and cries for justice following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Rev. Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton, co-chair of the Episcopal Sacred Resistance Task Force of the Diocese of Los […]
For more than a decade, the Very Rev. Sylvia Sweeney, Bloy House Dean, has shaped the lives and vocations of lay and clergy church leaders, powerfully preparing them for the future church. When she arrived at Bloy House, also known as the Episcopal School of Theology at Claremont, or ETSC, “it was pretty much exclusively […]
My siblings in Christ: In the life of nations, moments come when the person of faith must ask: “What am I to do?” Let’s go back to the 15th year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius. His proconsul, Pontius Pilate, ruled Judea, and his puppet, Herod, was king in Galilee. As we learn in the […]
The voices of Southland Episcopalians were prominently featured in a Union of Black Episcopalians May 31 online prayer vigil that drew a rainbow of 300 black, white, Asian, Latino and Native people from across the United States and from as far away as France. The “Vigil for Racial Justice and the Healing of Our Nation” […]
Before the coronavirus, J.B.’s home had been on Pasadena city streets. “I stayed down on Del Mar and Pasadena Street,” J.B., 60, told The Episcopal News recently. When efforts to halt the virus’s spread forced closure of local restaurants, offices, and public restrooms, he discovered a new home, a dedicated space at All Saints Church. […]
Vivien Sansour lives just footsteps away from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the oldest site continuously used for worship in Christianity, thought to contain the birthplace of Jesus. But for Sansour, a former peace and justice director at All Saints Church in Pasadena, and more than 25,000 other Palestinian residents, the ancient city […]
Imagine farming with no access to water. Imagine farming with no place to store tools or harvested crops. Imagine watching lush green land become desert and concrete jungle. Vivien Sansour doesn’t have to imagine it. She and other Palestinians, whose ancestors have tended grapes, almonds, apricots, wheat, barley, dates and other crops in the West […]
Jesus said: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. —Luke 10:27 From the beginning of the pandemic, our Episcopal congregations and our respective dioceses have been strengthened by prayer, study, and […]
And they worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and they were continually in the temple blessing God. —Luke 24:52-53 Greetings this Ascension Day in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! With Pentecost and summer around the corner, even those of us who are fully committed in mind, heart, and spirit to […]
