From Long Beach to Lompoc, Bishop Assisting Samuel Azariah baptizes and confirms Southland Episcopalians and playfully asks congregations for a show of hands if they’ve “ever seen a Pakistani bishop before.” The soft-spoken Azariah told The Episcopal News recently he likes to ask because “I look so different. Everybody’s interested in looking at me and […]
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 ultimate battle between good and evil. So […]
July 5 – 13 Southland Episcopalians will join an estimated 10,000 people — bishops, deputies, volunteers, media, guests, exhibitors, vendors, Episcopal Church Women and others — deep in the heart of Texas at the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Austin. Along with counterparts from 108 other Episcopal Church dioceses in 16 countries, bishops and […]
June 27, 2018 By EN staff With the goal of strengthening interfaith cooperation in Southern California, the fourth annual Interdependence Day walking meditation around Echo Park Lake is planned for 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 1, with seven stations of brief prayers and meditations offered in the tradition of major world religions. All are welcome […]
By EN staff June 20, 2018 Bishop Diane Jardine Bruce and Bishop John H. Taylor lead a discussion on ways to solve the housing crisis in Los Angeles with some 40 church and community leaders. Photo / Janet Kawamoto To address the “moral crisis of unaffordable housing” across Southern California, Bishop John H. Taylor on […]
Early in the first round of our diocesan reconciliation process, which got underway in mid-April by introducing or reintroducing us to systems theory, Richard Blackburn of the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center asked a clarifying question: “How many times during this conflict [over St. James, Newport Beach] did you say to yourself, ‘What a great opportunity […]
Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce represented the Diocese of Los Angeles and The Episcopal Church at the ordination and installation of the Rev. Nestor Dagas Poltic as third bishop of the Diocese of North Central Philippines on May 1 at the Cathedral of the Resurrection in Magsaysay, Baguio City. Bruce, who was a co-consecrator and […]
During her seven years as St. James Episcopal School headmaster, Debbi David has consistently beefed up campus security — adding four full-time guards, cameras, special doors and panic bar gates, ‘active shooter’ and other emergency drills, and even air horns in classrooms for teachers to signal loudly if accosted by anyone. Now, in the wake […]
The diocese raised nearly $76,000 for disaster relief; most of it aided the poor, homeless and undocumented s fires raged through Southern California at the end of 2017, Episcopal congregations in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties — some of them narrowly escaping damage from the flames — immediately went into action to help their neighbors […]
March 24 was the first time 16-year-old Ireland La Munyon had ever demonstrated at a protest rally. She felt called to activism because “I believe I shouldn’t be afraid when I go to school.” The Etiwanda High School sophomore said she protested because of the 17 who died and 14 who were injured in the […]
