[The Episcopal News] Education means so much to Sarojam “Saroj” Mankau that she has contributed toward building schools in Guinea, Jordan, Sudan and Palestine, and has also funded a scholarship in the graduate nematology department at the University of California at Riverside. As Mankau, a retired California State University professor of biology and a parishioner […]
[The Episcopal News] Ann Noble never dreamed her love for acting would lead her to Los Angeles County jails. Born and raised in Chicago, she moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to expand an already acclaimed career as actor, playwright, director, and theater company founder. Performing in a production of “Murder in the Cathedral” brought […]
[The Episcopal News] When doctors advised Mitsuye Yasutake Yamada in 1963 that she had only a year to live, the mother of four quickly got her affairs in order – most unconventionally. She got a job teaching English at Cypress College. She completed Camp Notes and Other Writings, a volume of poetry about her World […]
Arthur Littleworth’s amazing life has inspired both a film and a book, but the 98-year-old retired Riverside attorney and lifelong Episcopalian considers his extraordinary leadership simply to be what faith, civic responsibility and the times in which he lived and the community he loves needed of him. In 2020, the City of Riverside produced a […]
[The Episcopal News] After a pandemic-forced year’s hiatus, Deacon Sam Pillsbury returned to the Los Angeles Twin Towers Correctional Facility in March, heeding a strong call to let those he serves know, “they are not forgotten, that they are still cared for and count as people.” Currently housing some 2,500 prisoners, the Twin Towers is […]
Jane Stoever views her service as director of the domestic violence clinic at the University of California at Irvine as holistic and transformative – supporting and empowering abuse survivors, teaching the law students who seek justice for those clients in court, and advocating for protective policies and legislative changes to a system that can victimize […]
For the Rev. Dennis Gibbs and the Rev. Greta Ronningen, co-directors of Prism, the diocesan restorative justice ministry, serving “our friends inside” the jails of Los Angeles County and some other California prisons has taken on both a clarity and a sense of urgency during the pandemic. “I want to encourage everyone to remember those […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a seismic spike in existing food insecurity, and a shift in the approach, but not the mission, of Seeds of Hope, the food justice ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. “The intent behind Seeds of Hope was to rethink, to repurpose church resources and capacities, to do what […]
Alyssa Voboril remembers her first conversation about race. The Madison, Wisconsin, native was 23, serving an Episcopal urban intern year in Los Angeles when she and other interns participated in a group activity led by her mentor, Canon Suzanne Edwards-Acton. “I remember it like it was yesterday,” Voboril, 31, told The Episcopal News recently. “The […]
The Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu is very much her father’s daughter, yet from an early age was determined to chart her own course. The third child of 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond and Nomalizo Leah Tutu, she bears a striking resemblance to her father but has emerged from his shadow as an activist, […]
