My album from our annual renewal of vows and chrism mass today at St. John’s Cathedral for the bishops, deacons, and priests of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. We took counsel together, shared stories, renewed our promises to our God in Christ, and went home with plenty of blessed holy oil for healing services […]
Two months after the Los Angeles wildfires, they were fresh on everyone’s minds this morning as interfaith and ecumenical leaders met with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass at St. Paul’s Commons, Echo Park. Co-sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Council of Religious Leaders, the hour-long, off-the-record conversation, which I moderated, […]
As reports come in about ICE raids around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, I write to remind my siblings in Christ that, by act of diocesan convention in December 2016, we are a sanctuary diocese. “Sanctuary” is generally but not exclusively understood as sheltering immigrant workers and their families in churches. I’m not aware […]
The congregation of Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church – Altadena — among whose members 40 homes were lost in the wildfire that also burned their church and school buildings — gathered Jan. 19 for their first Sunday-morning service at St. Barnabas Eagle Rock, where church leaders have welcomed the Altadena parish to use the sanctuary weekly […]
God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness.’ Gen. 1:26a When you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. Isaiah 43:2 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but […]
The two Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles parishes hit hardest by the wildfires, Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in Altadena and The Parish of St. Matthew in Pacific Palisades, have something in common besides loss and grief. Each hosts a highly respected Episcopal school, which means four institutions instead of two will be recovering, taking stock, […]
Bishop Brookhart C. Franklin Brookhart, Jr. retired in 2018 after 15 years as ninth bishop of the Diocese of Montana. He began visiting congregations in the Diocese of Los Angeles in early 2020, but his schedule was interrupted by the COVID quarantine. Born in West Virginia and raised in West Virginia and Ohio, Brookhart graduated […]
[The Episcopal News] The Rev. Carter Heyward and the Rev. Norma Guerra – key speakers at the Nov. 9 annual meeting of the Diocese of Los Angeles in Riverside – issued rousing calls to action, to love and to pursue justice in the uncertain aftermath of the recent contentious presidential election. “My call to myself; […]
Is Israel’s brutal counterinsurgency in Gaza an act of genocide? Is Israel an apartheid state? It depends on whom you ask and where they stand. This week in Louisville, at the 81st General Convention of The Episcopal Church, we debated these two words all week, in hallways and over meals. I have my views, and […]
It’s hard to read the raw statistics without cringing. Sixty percent of the U.S. population is white but just 30% of those in federal prison. Just over 12% of us are people of African descent compared to nearly 35% of prisoners. People don’t vary according to race in their moral and ethical capacity, although I […]
