One hundred fifty years ago, on April 19, 1865, the Rev. Elias Birdsall, rector of St. Athanasius Episcopal Church, eulogized President Abraham Lincoln, acknowledging the self-sacrificial and “awful responsibilities” the assassinated president had undertaken in guiding the nation through four years of bloody civil war that ultimately ended slavery. The eulogy and Lincoln’s leadership were […]
Bees, butterflies, boats, and beds and barrels on wheels are just some of the ways Southland Episcopalians are optimizing space and caring for creation. Inspired by Bishop J. Jon Bruno’s call to environmental and food justice, most of the diocese’s schools and churches are engaged in acts of green, many of them via Seeds of […]
In a deeply politicized country where environmental officials in Florida are forbidden to use the words “climate” and “change” together in a sentence, and where a presidential candidate dismisses the notion that greenhouse gases are causing the earth’s atmosphere to warm, the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Episcopal Church hosted a forum March […]
Los Angeles Bishop Jon Bruno welcomed Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and other guests to a March 24 climate change crisis webcast from Campbell Hall Episcopal School in North Hollywood. “We (the city of Los Angeles) are the thief that steals most of the water in California and brings it here from the farming valleys […]
The Rt. Rev. Frederick Borsch, retired fifth bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles, and the Rev. Canon John Taylor, vicar of St. John Chrysostom Church in Rancho Santa Margarita, both released novels in 2014 that draw from their experiences in, respectively, academic life and politics. Such is the premise of My Life for Yours […]
Peace in the Holy Lands and the history of the Episcopal Church in Southern California were discussed at the first two Birdsall Lectures, held in January and February in Los Angeles. The new series is named for the first priest of the Congregation of St. Athanasius, Los Angeles, which is celebrating its 150th year of […]
Their faith is woven into their work as nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, organizers, artists and activists. They represent Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Hare Krishna, and Christian traditions, the latter including the Episcopal Church, the Latter-Day Saints, Christian Science and other denominations. Fifty young people ages 24 to 35 living and working in the greater […]
Southland Episcopalians say the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy overcomes time, ethnic, racial, religious and geographic divides, trumpeting a perennial message of hope, faith, courage and inspiration. Like 14-year-old Emily Fitton, who had “learned something about Dr. King vaguely in school where it was more talked about in my younger years, not so […]
The Bishop Coadjutor Search Committee, charged by Diocesan Convention and the Standing Committee to seek nominees for a successor to Bishop Diocesan J. Jon Bruno upon his retirement in 2018, held its first meeting Feb. 10 and began to organize its work. Preparing a profile of the diocese and reviewing input received during Diocesan Convention’s […]
Bishop J. Jon Bruno announced on Jan. 28 that the Corporation of the Diocese has elected the Rev. Kirby Smith, vicar of St. Luke’s of-the-Mountains, La Crescenta, as treasurer of the diocese, and that he has appointed the Rev. James Prendergast of St. James’ Church, South Pasadena, as chancellor of the diocese. He also announced […]
