With apologies to Karl Barth, Anglicans and Episcopalians go out into the world with the gospel in one hand and a history book (or a phone for checking Wikipedia) in the other. For the Church of England, it was, of course, the British Reformation; for The Episcopal Church, the American Revolution. For the Diocese of […]
A year or two ago, walking on Rosemead Blvd. near our home in east Pasadena, I came across a man lying on the sidewalk and behaving badly. Rushing past, I stopped a half-block along, knowing I had to do something. I feared someone else, perhaps a child, would come around the corner and see. I […]
On the Rev. Eduardo Bresciani Undurraga’s father’s side, ancestors fought for Italian unity with Giuseppe Garibaldi’s forces. On his mother’s side were heroes of Chilean independence. Such stories run deep in a family. His parents were married in November 1947, on the same day as the future Queen Elizabeth and Phillip. When I visited him […]
Brian Ide’s Grace-Based Films, well known to all their friends at All Saints’ Beverly Hills, have unveiled the website for “A Case For Love,” their feature-length film on the teachings of Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry, in theaters Jan. 23. You’ll find a trailer and other information by clicking here. And remember: “If it’s not […]
Merciful God, we pray for all those at risk as a result of extreme weather, especially our neighbors throughout the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles during the impending heat wave, when the unhoused and those who have preexisting conditions or lack air conditioning will be especially vulnerable. We beseech you to bestow gifts of wisdom […]
Shortly after the Rev. Canon Mary Crist began her volunteer ministry to the food- and housing-insecure at St. Michael’s Riverside Episcopal Ministry Center at Bishop Bruno’s invitation 12 years ago, she asked one of the men who wandered over from a nearby park what he and his friends needed most. “He said a place to […]
One day in 1975, a hungry family knocked on the door of the office of Prince of Peace Church, Woodland Hills, California and asked church administrator Margaret Shively if they had any groceries to share. They didn’t. Margaret told the then rector, the Rev. Jess Taylor, “We need to keep a little food around here […]
An Advent greeting from historic Church of The Advent in south Los Angeles, inviting the people of God to prepare for the coming of our Lord by laying a brick, sowing a seed, and visiting diocesela.org and making a gift to the One Body & One Spirit Annual Appeal, which helps us build up all […]
With the NL West clinched, the Los Angeles Dodgers could afford tonight’s 11-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. But it was a big win for over 800 members of Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles missions and parishes, returning to Dodger Stadium for Episcopal Night for the first time since 2019. The Rev. Canon Greg […]
As the 15th The Lambeth Conference comes to an end on Sunday, as much as I’ve enjoyed this mountaintop experience with sibling bishops around the world and The Episcopal Church, I occasionally found myself wondering where everyone else was — as in the deacons, lay leaders, and priests. It was a feeling not unlike a […]
