Bishop John Harvey Taylor opened the second online meeting of Diocesan Council on May 14, 2020, with a tribute to the Rt. Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce and her “10 extraordinary years” as Bishop Suffragan in Los Angeles. Taylor said Bruce, who made history Dec. 4, 2010 as the first woman elected a bishop in […]
Diane Marie Jardine Bruce is a 4’11 bundle of unmatchable energy; Facebook posting early morning till late night with back-to-back meetings in-between, an “extreme extrovert” who parlayed a love of morning walks and a facility for languages into signature ministries. Ten years after becoming the Southland’s first woman bishop she remains, at heart, simply a […]
Serving as a St. Mark’s Church greeter once meant welcoming parishioners with a big smile and a warm hello, opening doors for them, shaking hands, offering hugs, exchanging pleasantries, passing out paper bulletins. Now, in the age of COVID-19, worship and coffee hour have moved online, and digital greeters at the Upland church still welcome […]
More than 220 active and retired clergy attended the May 4 – 5 annual diocesan clergy conference held — in the age of COVID-19 — via Zoom instead of in person at Riverside’s Mission Inn as originally planned. It included tributes to the Rev. Canon Joanna Satorius, retiring formation and vocations officer, as well as […]
For the scrappy Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Service, the COVID-19 pandemic has meant finding creative ways to aid society’s most vulnerable in the most challenging of circumstances. For example, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order has meant, for IRIS, virtual instead of in-person assistance with naturalization and green card applications — and even Zoom home […]
Thomas said to Jesus, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, ”I am the way, and the truth, and the life.” John 14:5-6 Just think of what we have accomplished in the weeks since March 17, when I suspended in-person worship in the […]
Zoom in to the 37th Annual Scholarship Benefit, a stay-at-home celebration to be hosted Saturday, May 9, at 6pm by the Neighborhood Youth Association, a diocesan institution since 1906 specializing in 100-percent college-placement for students from low-income families. Highlights of the 40-minute benefit will include electronically conferring scholarship awards totaling more than $62,500 raised largely […]
Since COVID-19, people are showing up earlier and the line has doubled on Friday mornings at the St. Athanasius’ food pantry at St. Paul’s Commons in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. “But the regional food bank has decreased the amount of food they are giving us,” said the Rev. Canon Frank Alton, rector […]
The COVID-19 shutdown and its effect on diocesan ministries and budgets were primary topics at the April 16 Zoom-based meeting of Diocesan Council as Bishop John Harvey Taylor announced that he had named a Bishop’s Task Force on Budget and Finance to advise him through the crisis and beyond. Calling the meeting to order, Taylor […]
Bishop Diane Jardine Bruce invites the diocesan community to an online conversation and discussion on the impact of the coronavirus on the Asian American church and communities, titled “”Being Asian Americans in the Age of the Coronavirus,” on Saturday, April 25, 4 – 6 p.m. “Our current crisis has widespread and devastating impact that we […]
