Camp Stevens, the Diocese of Los Angeles’s longtime conference center shared with the Diocese of San Diego, has named the camp’s former operations director, Kathy Wilder, as interim executive director, Los Angeles Canon to the Ordinary Melissa McCarthy has announced. Wilder’s appointment was approved by Camp Stevens board of advisors in consultation with Bishops John […]
The congregation of Church of the Angels, Pasadena, held their normal Sunday services Jan. 14 in spite of damage done to the historic 1889 church by vandals two nights before. According to the Rev. Robert Gaestel, longtime rector of the church, the vandals broke off the arms of a stone angel sculpture outside the church […]
Mike, in his early 20s, was one of the 13 young people who staged a fast in downtown Los Angeles for three days in early December on behalf of their fellow Dreamers — the cohort of 800,000 who arrived in the U.S. as children with their immigrant worker parents. Eight out of ten Americans agree […]
The devastation was all around them when Bishop John Taylor, the Rev. Canon Melissa McCarthy, canon to the ordinary, and the Rev. Canon Michael Bamberger, diocesan disaster relief coordinator, visited Ventura Dec. 12 to meet and offer help to Episcopalians and congregations affected by the fast-moving Thomas fire that wreaked havoc on the Ventura, Ojai […]
Amid cheers, tears, applause, standing ovations, gratitude and the Eucharist, Bishop Jon Bruno on Dec. 1 handed a historic crozier — a shepherd’s staff, the symbol of his office — to his successor, the Rt. Rev. John Taylor at the 122nd annual meeting of the Diocese of Los Angeles. Taylor’s first official act as seventh […]
Clergy and lay members of Episcopal Sacred Resistance, a ministry of the Diocese of Los Angeles, gathered at the federal building in downtown Los Angeles on Dec. 6 with 13 young Dreamers, some of the estimated 800,000 young people who were brought to the United States as children and have grown up, attended school, served […]
From the halls of Congress to washing deportees’ blistered feet at the Mexican border, United Methodist Church (UMC) Bishop Minerva Carcaño has tackled walls that separate and divide people from each other and from the Reign of God. “God’s good earth was not meant for walls,” said Carcaño, who on Dec. 1 delivered the fifth […]
The Rev. Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles, professor at Bloy House (The Episcopal Theological School in Claremont) and dean of Claremont School of Theology, is among the provincial and churchwide delegates named by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry to represent him at the 62nd session of the United Nations Commission on the […]
Canon David Tumilty, who served as Bishop Jon Bruno’s chief of staff and executive for operations for more than 16 years, will retire in 2018, according to a notice from the bishop’s office. Tumilty will assist Bishop John H. Taylor, Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce and Canon to the Ordinary Melissa McCarthy during the first […]
Bishop John H. Taylor officially began his ministry as bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles near the end of the opening Eucharist of Diocesan Convention on Dec. 1 when retiring Bishop J. Jon Bruno handed him the historic crozier borne by each bishop of the diocese. Taylor immediately exercised his new authority by naming […]
