August 14, 2018 By EN staff Bishop John Harvey Taylor has announced a special production next month of the beloved Broadway musical Godspell to raise funds for various diocesan ministries. The professional, semi-staged production will be performed in downtown Los Angeles at the Colburn School’s Zipper Hall on Saturday, Sept. 8, and in Santa Barbara at Trinity […]
August 14, 2018 By EN staff Bloy House (Episcopal Theological School at Claremont) and the diocese’s office of Formation and Transition Ministry have announced two courses for lay leaders: Church Leadership, to begin in August; and Fresh Start for Laity, beginning in January. The nature of church leadership Church Leadership, a basic course in understanding […]
August 14, 2018 By EN staff Calling clergy and lay delegates to Diocesan Convention’s 122nd annual meeting Nov. 30 – Dec. 1 at Ontario Convention Center, the Secretary of Convention, Canon Dr. Steve Nishibayashi, has announced dates for filing audit reports and proposed legislation. Approaching deadlines include: Sept. 1: Proposing changes to the diocesan constitution […]
Responding to Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s call to “Follow the Way of Jesus,” deputies and bishops at the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, meeting July 5 – 13 in Austin, Texas, acted on a record number of resolutions on key issues such as immigration, prayer book revision, Israel-Palestine, and readmitting the Episcopal Church of Cuba […]
By Janet Kawamoto July 05, 2018 The Episcopal News issued daily reports from the 79th meeting of the Episcopal Church’s triennial General Convention, which met in Austin, Texas, July 5 – 13. Click on the following links to read the reports. Day 1: July 5 Day 2: July 6 Day 3: July 7 Day 4: […]
June 27, 2018 By John Harvey Taylor For our celebration of Holy Eucharist at Messiah, Santa Ana on June 22, the morning of Orange County Pride, our liturgist, the Rev. Kay Sylvester, selected the passage from 1 Samuel about David going to war against the Philistines. In Sunday school in bygone days, it was the […]
When Dennis Doherty found working from his West Los Angeles home too distracting and isolating, he went to coffee shops and even the local IHOP. Then he heard about The Divine Office (TDO) at St. Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica, California, a few miles away. It blends monastic-style spirituality and the secular phenomenon […]
Bishops of the six Episcopal dioceses in California — California, El Camino Real, Los Angeles, Northern California, San Diego and San Joaquin — co-signed a letter issued June 20 by Episcopal Public Policy Network of California calling for an end to the Trump administration’s policy of separating parents and children who enter the country seeking […]
Bishop’s Legate for Global Partnerships Troy Elder has spent the past four years building bridges on behalf of the Diocese of Los Angeles, advocating for unaccompanied minors, detainees, and comprehensive immigration reform. Now he is engaging that struggle on another front. The human rights attorney concluded his diocesan staff ministry several weeks ago and has […]
Deputies from the dioceses of Los Angeles and California have written a resolution to General Convention calling for an end to the practice of separating immigrant children from their parents without due cause, and reiterating previous calls for comprehensive immigration reform. The Rev. Canon Susan Russell submitted the resolution, endorsed by Deputies Sarah Lawton of […]
