When the city of Pasadena’s Black History Month Parade route concludes at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church on Feb. 15, Michael Mims will be waiting. “I’ll be there to answer questions, to invite people to come and take a look, to give them information,” said Mims, 75, a retired Pasadena City College photography professor, who calculates that […]
When Amanda Whiddon graduated from the Loyola Law School in May she extended her student health insurance through October, expecting to have a job and medical coverage by November. She didn’t. Her insurance coverage ended in October and, with a pre-existing medical condition and an uncertain employment future, “every time I got in the car, […]
More than 100 people gathered at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul in Los Angeles Jan. 18 to, in the words of guest preacher North Carolina Bishop Michael Curry, “sing the songs of Zion, to commemorate the life and witness of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and … to consecrate our future and […]
The line begins to form about 5 p.m. outside the Beach Coin Laundry in Huntington Beach on the second Wednesday of each month. And it keeps growing — with the homeless, the working poor, those living on fixed incomes, those down on their luck, single moms and their children — guests who welcome Laundry Love […]
Bishop Jon Bruno called for a moment of silence in honor of Nelson Mandela at the start of the 118th annual meeting of the Diocese of Los Angeles Dec. 6, and challenged several hundred convention delegates, visitors, and guests to sow seeds of hope, reconciliation and transformation, as had the former South African leader who […]
The stunning array of current challenges throughout the world — failed global systems, climate change, hunger, poverty, war, as well as racism, ethnic cleansing and gender bias — beckon the church to a pivotal moment, according to retired Massachusetts Suffragan Bishop Barbara Harris. While delivering the third biennial Margaret Parker Memorial Lecture on “Justice and […]
Bishop J. Jon Bruno conferred special honors on several priests and lay leaders during diocesan convention, naming five honorary canons of the Cathedral Center of St. Paul and presenting two newly instituted Bishop’s Awards for Service. New canons are the Rev. Mary Crist; Donna Keller; the Rev. Pat McCaughan; the Rev. Rand Reasoner; and the […]
The Rev. Canon George Woodward III, rector of St. Edmund’s Church, San Marino, has been appointed as canon for pastoral inclusion for the Episcopal Church of El Salvador, Bishop Martin Barahona of the Central American diocese announced in a letter on Nov. 20. Woodward will continue as rector of St. Edmund’s and a priest of […]
Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the central Philippines on the morning of Nov. 8, causing widespread damage, killing and displacing thousands of people and knocking out power and communications lines. Roads are clogged with debris, and the airport in the devastated area was destroyed; as a result, getting aid to people who need it is […]
Welcome into this place,” harmonized 40-some voices Oct. 13 as the Los Angeles Episcopal Chorale Society Inc. sang a greeting to guests arriving at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel to celebrate their 30th year of making music to lift spirits, revive souls, warm hearts, deepen faith and strengthen lives. None of which would have happened, by […]
