Church of the Angels, Pasadena, will welcome childless men and women to “Healing Loss with Light & Love,” on Saturday, Sept. 21, 10 a.m. At this non-denominational service, those who are childless due to infertility, circumstance or difficult choices will have an opportunity to honor their loss in a safe space through poetry, readings, violin […]
PIH HEALTH, A WHITTIER-BASED NONPROFIT healthcare network, and Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, announced Sept. 5 that they have signed an affiliation agreement that will align the two mission-driven healthcare organizations. According to the announcement from PIH Health, “Good Samaritan will be fully integrated into the PIH Health system in a manner that will permanently […]
Call it revival or resurrection, St. Barnabas Episcopal Church — which closed to official worship a year ago — is back as “St. Be” and is inviting the entire diocesan community to a Sept. 28 party to celebrate the launch of a reimagined, exploratory community in Eagle Rock. For the Rev. Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton, jump-starting […]
“Women in Spiritual Leadership: Sharing Our Stories – Sharing Our Spirit” will be the theme of the 2019 Daughters of the King Fall Assembly on Saturday, Oct. 19. The St. Columba’s DOK chapter in Camarillo will host the meeting in conjunction with the chapters at All Saints, Oxnard, and Saint Paul’s, Ventura. The Assembly will […]
AS WE MARKED THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY of the Apollo 11 landing in July, we saw plenty of old film of the mighty Saturn V taking off from the Kennedy Space Center. It flew 13 times, most of them moon missions. For a few seconds after ignition, it rose almost imperceptibly. It took ten seconds to […]
A UNION OF BLACK EPISCOPALIANS YOUTH WORSHIP SERVICE became a call to action July 24 when Presiding Bishop Michael Curry took the pulpit at All Saints Church in Pasadena, California. Curry urged the UBE leaders, youth, several hundred local worshippers and visiting conference-goers to consider, “between now and next year, leading a massive voter registration […]
THE JULY 22 – 26 NATIONAL GATHERING of the Union of Black Episcopalians, hosted by the Los Angeles diocese’s H. Belfield Hannibal chapter, offered a good old-fashioned “family reunion” of spirited worship, community service opportunities, Sacred Resistance, Black Lives Matter and mental health activism workshops, tours of Black Hollywood and the California African American Museum, […]
A LOAN FROM THE EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION helped transform St. Paul’s aging facilities in Pomona into an elegant venue for weddings, quinceañeras and other cultural and community events. “We had been racking our brains; we were operating out of a deficit and trying to reduce it by doing everything we could,” according to […]
MANY ASPECTS OF DIOCESAN CONVENTION will be the same as always this year; lay and clergy delegates representing congregations of the diocese will hear reports of recent work, cast ballots for diocesan officers (including deputies to the 2021 General Convention), consider resolutions and canonical tweaks, and worship together. What’s different is the time and place. […]
FOR JENNIFER GONZALES, 49, participating in a June 7 Service of Renaming at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Covina was claiming her authentic self. “I knew I was transgender from a young age, even though I did all the boy stuff – biking, skateboarding,” Gonzales told Episcopal News Service after the ceremony. “My mom didn’t […]
