Bishop Suffragan Mary D. Glasspool wasn’t just celebrating her birthday Feb. 23; she also was in Mexico to attend the service establishing Bishop Coadjutor Enrique Trevino Cruz as bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Cuernavaca. “Something about that feels more than just coincidental,” said Glasspool, who recently returned from a two-week language and cultural immersion […]
Imagine it: a damaged math genius traps himself in his basement with his technology… Only the basement is actually the St. Mark’s parish hall, temporarily transformed by “North by South,” a nonprofit theater company in residence at and partnering with the Glendale church to highlight social and global justice issues. Eudoxus is the play and […]
The historic California Craftsman three-story dwelling on El Molino Avenue once boarded Pasadena Playhouse actors. For its current crop of residents, however, there is no more pretending. For Nathan K., a U.S. Marine, the Gooden Center “is just this magical place” where he rediscovered the camaraderie he thought he’d left behind after being wounded in […]
More than 400 lay and clergy delegates gathered Dec. 8 at the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino for the 117th annual meeting of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. The one-day convention — conducted within the context of the Eucharist — was themed a celebration of “Abundant Vineyards” and of gratitude, according […]
The Diocese of Los Angeles celebrated a sense of plenty at the Dec. 8 meeting of Diocesan Convention, meeting with the theme “Serving Together in Abundant Vineyards.” Although held in an unfamliar venue — the Orange Show in San Bernardino — the convention breezed through its one-day agenda comparatively quickly, while celebrating the Eucharist, electing […]
The Rev. Canon Cindy Voorhees of Huntington Beach aims to transform the time-honored African proverb about teaching a person to fish so he can feed himself for a lifetime. “Africans already know how to fish; it’s time to go to the next step,” said Voorhees, whose nonprofit agency Building Africa has already taken that next […]
Nancy Frausto could hardly wait to keep her Oct. 18 appointment with the Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Service (IRIS) to apply for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival or “DACA” eligibility. A Bloy House seminarian, popular lay leader and postulant for holy orders in the Diocese of Los Angeles, Frausto, 29, has been waiting a very […]
It was the Rev. John Ri’s first visit to Good Samaritan Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit and the sight of tiny “Baby Gabriel,” born at 36 weeks and in an incubator with heart and breathing monitors and intravenous tubes, initially startled him. “It may be difficult for me to visit here. My heart is hurt,” […]
Several hundred present and former campers, counselors, staff members, board members and friends of Camp Stevens, the diocesan camp in Julian, gathered Sept. 2 to celebrate the facility’s 60th anniversary as an Episcopal camp and look forward to a new era. Attendees honored Peter Bergstrom, executive director, and his wife Vicki, who officially retired Sept. […]
Change remains the byword as the Episcopal Church’s eight-day 77th General Convention winds down today. Generational change, technological change, fiscal and structural change, international change, liturgical change, and more: these dynamics are in much in play as the church moves forward locally, regionally and globally. And it is change for the best: one senses that […]
