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June 23, 1948 – Oct. 10, 2017 The Rev. Lee Marshall Harris, popular chaplain, religion teacher, winning debate team coach and vocational deacon at St. Mark’s Church and School in Upland, died Tuesday, Oct. 10, after a short bout with pancreatic cancer. Harris, a ten-year cancer survivor, had been recently diagnosed with a recurrence of […]
1947 – 2017 The Rev. Karen Ann Wojahn, assisting priest and educator at several Orange County congregations, died Sept. 30, the day after her 70th birthday, at her home in Orange, Calif. In recent months she had been hospitalized with a worsening pulmonary condition. She is survived by her husband of more than 50 years, […]
November 3, 1919 – August 29, 2017 Canon Janice Morrison Overfield Rusack, widow of the late fourth Bishop of Los Angeles, the Rt. Rev. Robert Claflin Rusack, died Aug. 29. She was 97, and had been in declining health in recent years. Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Rebecca Rusack Waycott and Richard Waycott; son […]
Replacing an old wooden fence this summer meant for Freddy Cordon-Perez, long hours in the blistering sun, measuring and reconfiguring, digging and re-digging post holes, breaking and pouring cement, mounting railings and palings and finally, securing it all together. In a place of extreme contrasts, it also meant camping out in tents for two weeks […]
Worshipping with more than a thousand other young people, visiting the Oklahoma City National Memorial and glimpsing a wider vision of the church, felt “awesome” for Southland youth attending the Episcopal Youth Event (EYE). “They did a great job of showing us the spirit of the Episcopal Church, but also gave us a good history […]
The Bishop as a Corporation Sole (Corp Sole) needs to be operated with an increased level of transparency and comply with accepted accounting principles, and possibly should shift some of its holdings to a diocesan endowment fund, according to a progress report issued by Bishop Coadjutor John Taylor and a committee charged with studying Corp […]
Episcopalians joined about 200 immigration activists in front of the Los Angeles County Hall of Justice on Aug. 3, bearing signs, beating drums and chanting “Escucha, estamos en la lucha” (“Listen, we are in the struggle”). They also chipped away at a melting ice sculpture, shaped in the letters I-C-E, acronym for the federal Immigration […]
The Rt. Rev. John Harvey Taylor was ordained and consecrated bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Los Angeles July 8 in a “grand fiesta” of celebration highlighting the diocese’s rich cultural diversity and its focus on mission. Korean drummers, Chinese dancers and a mariachi band led processions of bishops from across the Episcopal Church as […]
Citing binding legal contracts and a need to avoid litigation, Bishop Coadjutor John H. Taylor announced Aug. 14 that diocesan leadership will allow the sale of church property in Newport Beach used by the previous congregation of St. James the Great to proceed. In a letter to the diocesan community, Taylor wrote that the diocese […]
Politicians and pundits who so egregiously split hairs over the Nazi flags, white supremacist slogans, and deadly violence in Charlottesville on August 11 have taught a sobering lesson to everyone who proclaims Jesus’s gospel of love. We can work with politicians, and we should. We can pray for them, and we must. But we often […]
The Rt. Rev. John Harvey Taylor, bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, on Aug. 1 accepted jurisdiction over matters related to church property in Newport Beach and the congregation of St. James the Great – a responsibility he shares with the diocese’s Standing Committee – in response to a directive from Presiding […]
by Jade Lakin It took me a couple of weeks after my return to find the drive and the clarity to sit down and write about my experience in Pakistan. My head has been swimming with ideas and I’ve been overwhelmed with anxiety about where to even begin. Writing about a trip that has so […]
