After moving from Iran with her family more than a decade ago, Zahra has settled into life in the greater Los Angeles area. She found meaningful work, serving as a refugee employment case manager at the Interfaith Refugee and Resettlement Service, or IRIS, a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. There she daily […]
A funeral birthed new life for St. Mary’s Church in Lompoc. A yoga class launched an atrophying St. Peter’s Church into a vibrant Santa Maria downtown community center. Their respective transformations — aka Easter lives — happened when they shifted into “Holy Currencies” mode by deepening community ties, saying yes to new possibilities, and taking […]
Episcopalians were among the pink-wearing, sign-carrying, chanting, joyous, positive and peaceful women, men, children, and families who rallied in Southland cities in solidarity with the historic Jan. 21 Women’s March in Washington D.C. From Orange to Ventura to Los Angeles counties, Episcopalians joined millions around the world in the “Sister Marches.” Crowd sizes exploded expectations […]
The Rev. Francisco Garcia is calling upon congregations across the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles to take an audit of their resources, to partner with their neighbors of all faiths, to consider how they might make a stand on behalf of undocumented persons who — already living in the shadows — are increasingly fearful in […]
In a sense, the story of Jesus’ resurection is a wives’ tale, the Rev. Rebecca Stevens told some 150 Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of Los Angeles in her sermon at the Eucharist that concluded their annual conference. “Because the women are the ones who showed up.” That’s what women do — and specifically […]
Seeds of Hope, the food justice ministry of the Diocese of Los Angeles, will administer “Champions of Change — Healthy Communities Initiative, a program to reduce obesity in low-income residents, funded by an $880,000 from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, with funding from the California Department of Public Health and the United […]
One way to honor the legacy of Martin Luther King is to do what he did: “to leverage the cross so everyone’s included,” Los Angeles Bishop Coadjutor-elect John Taylor told a gathering after the annual diocesan King Day celebration, held jointly this year with the Evangelical Lutheran Curch in America. Taylor joined Presiding Bishop Michael […]
The “life cube” assignment elicits lots of personal stories, irrepressible laughter, shared community and, for students who gathered on a very rainy recent Thursday at St. Paul’s Church in Tustin, the opportunity to practice their English conversational skills. From Yolanda, at 21, to Bob, at 83, the students attending weekly English as Second Language (ESL) […]
Hosting Rosa Robles for 461 days at the Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona, in 2016 taught the Rev. Allison Harrington a lot about what faith and solidarity really mean. A major lesson: “You can’t do this work alone,” Harrington told about 200 people who gathered at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul in Los […]
About 600 lay and clergy delegates, meeting in Ontario for the 121st annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, on Dec. 3 elected the Rev. Canon John Taylor as bishop coadjutor to help guide the diocese “Into the Future.” Taylor, vicar of St. John Chrysostom Church in Rancho Santa Margarita, narrowly surpassed the […]
