Delegates, visitors and guests at the 120th annual convention of the Diocese of Los Angeles erupted in thunderous laughter and applause on Dec. 5 as the Rev. Renita Weems, a Nashville-based author, Old Testament scholar, seminary professor, academic administrator, African Methodist Episcopal church pastor and this year’s Margaret Parker lecturer, said that she, like many […]
At the Ontario Convention Center, Diocesan Bishop Jon Bruno called the 120th annual convention of the Diocese of Los Angeles to order Dec. 4 on a somber note, urging an end to violence in all forms and citing a chilling statistic, that the United States had experienced a mass shooting — of four or more […]
Standing at the site of the recent terror attack in San Bernardino, California, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and Los Angeles Bishop Jon Bruno on Dec. 4 called upon people of faith and people of good will everywhere to join together to end gun violence. The bishops said they felt compelled to visit the […]
Dear Friends and Colleagues, It has been an honor and a privilege to have served you all in the Diocese of Los Angeles these past five-and-one-half years. This past August I received a call to become Assistant Bishop of New York, and I have accepted that call. God willing, I will begin this new ministry […]
Diane Jardine Bruce and Mary Glasspool were among the bishops suffragan of the Episcopal Church who gathered in Rome in October as guests of Pierre Whalon, bishop of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe. For Bruce and Glasspool, the unquestioned highlight of the trip was a visit to the Vatican and brief, but meaningful […]
For members of the Program Group on Ecumenical and Interreligious Life of the Diocese of Los Angeles, joining some 9,500 participants and volunteers representing 74 countries, 34 major religions and 349 sub-traditions at the Oct. 15 – 19 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Salt Lake City was exhilarating, prophetic, hopeful and transformative. “Reclaiming the […]
Amid Downtown Los Angeles’ current boom of commercial and residential construction, St. John’s Pro-Cathedral is entering a new chapter in its 125-year history. “We are strategically positioned in what is being called Downtown’s renaissance,” Dean Mark Kowalewski said of the context in which St. John’s is both launching new ministries and planning to develop its […]
He’s canonically resident in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, but the Very Rev. Frank Hegedus has spent the past four years serving at St. Margaret’s Anglican Church in Budapest, Hungary, and recently reached out to offer aid as thousands of refugees flocked to the country. “It seemed to come upon us suddenly, although in […]
In Beaumont, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church’s “Angels Among Us”-themed Christmas Tree Festival will mark the congregation’s tenth such community fund-raising event and highlight its yearlong centennial celebration. A Dec. 26 service, the feast day of St. Stephen, planned at about 5:30 p.m. will cap the church’s 100th birthday celebration with members returning to its roots, […]
According to Bishop Mary Glasspool and members of the Program Group on Ecumenical and Interreligious Life, Kay Lindahl — author, activist, and diocesan lay leader — “was and is a star … clearly a leader in the interfaith movement.” They credit Lindahl, author of The Sacred Art of Listening, for inspiring them, first to attend […]
