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Bishop John Harvey Taylor marked the one-year anniversary of the 2025 devastating Los Angeles area wildfires with prayer and visits to the communities most impacted, he reported to Diocesan Council at its Jan. 8 meeting via Zoom. Taylor began Council’s first 2026 meeting with prayers for “all that the victims lost, the death of a […]
A moment of silence for those killed by ICE — immigrants and Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old Minneapolis mother of three, poet and singer — followed the music of protest folk singer Jesse Welles as the Jan. 13 online meeting of the Sacred Resistance Ministry of the Diocese of Los Angeles got underway: “If you’re looking […]
Retired Los Angeles Bishop Suffragan Chester Lovelle Talton was remembered with gratitude, tears, laughter and applause as a devoted father, husband and grandfather, a gentle giant, a gifted leader, teacher, pastor and ardent prophet for justice and reconciliation, “the finest of bishops,” as hundreds gathered at a Dec. 27, 2025, memorial service at St. John’s […]
The Rev. Toni Freeman Stuart, assisting priest at St. Michael’s University Church in Isla Vista and former vicar of the Chapel of St. Francis in L.A.’s Atwater Village, died Jan. 2 in Santa Barbara where she was hospitalized following treatment for cancer. She was 88 and well known for pro-justice advocacy. Bishop John Harvey Taylor […]
Desde las 2 de la madrugada he estado recibiendo mensajes de personas en Venezuela compartiendo su experiencia, así como mensajes de personas de otras partes del mundo preguntándome cómo estoy, así que decidí procesar cómo me siento escribiendo sobre ello. Como venezolano-estadounidense, mi corazón está experimentando emociones encontradas tras las operaciones militares estadounidenses que resultaron […]
In the wake of last weekend’s U.S. military operation, the Rev. Dr. Antonio Gallardo, an immigrant from Venezuela who is bishop-elect of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, posted the following reflection in English and Spanish on Facebook. The texts follow here. Since 2 am this morning I have been receiving messages of people in […]
Love, laughter, applause, cheers, whistles and joy filled St. John’s Cathedral Dec. 13 as an historic “rainbow” gathering of about 200 Indigenous, Black, Hispanic and Chinese American and LGBTQ+ Episcopalians offered prayers, praise, well-wishes, music, dance and other gifts to celebrate retiring Bishop John Harvey Taylor and Canon Kathy O’Connor. Watch video here. There were […]
Bishop John Harvey Taylor today announced his appointment of Canon Dan Valdez – Episcopal Community Federal Credit Union board president whose terms on Diocesan Council included membership on the joint finance committee – to serve as interim treasurer of the Diocese of Los Angeles. Valdez, a longtime lay leader at All Saints Church in Highland […]
A long-time facilitator of conflict resolution around the Diocese of Los Angeles, Wendy Lords has been selected to serve on a new alternative dispute resolution team as part of a denomination-wide Episcopal Church initiative. The program, which is still in its early stages, is designed to serve as a supervised setting for disputes to be resolved […]
St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Westwood hosted the latest installment of The Howe Lectures, featuring Dr. Andrew R. H. Thompson, Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Center for Religion and Environment at the School of Theology, University of the South (Sewanee). In his lecture, “Eco-Theology and Private Property: A Radical Episcopal Critique,” Thompson argued that contemporary […]
The singing of Sir Hubert Parry’s soaring anthem “I was glad when they said unto me (let us go to the house of the Lord)” – its text drawn from Psalm 122 – epitomized the spirit of two celebratory liturgies marking parishioners’ return to L.A.’s almost-one-century-old St. James’ Episcopal Church, reopened Nov. 22-23 after an […]
Queridos Amigos: “Las hojas viejas se marchitan, mueren y caen, y los nuevos brotes se extienden hacia la luz.” Esta cita de Bryant McGill, autor, orador y líder de opinión estadounidense que aboga por los derechos humanos y la igualdad de género, trata sobre el ciclo natural de la vida y la importancia de dejar […]
