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by Jill McKenna Fewer than 10 miles from Disneyland, Angel Stadium, Honda Center and other monuments to prosperity, approximately 15% of the population lives below the federal poverty level. But one small Episcopal congregation is fighting hard to alleviate food insecurity in this densely populated area of Orange County. St. Anselm of Canterbury’s Sharing Abundance, […]
Until recently, Nate Alday of Ventura County believed abolitionists were a thing of the past. Then he became one. “Like a lot of Americans, I thought slavery was abolished back at the end of the Civil War,” Alday told The Episcopal News recently. But a youth pilgrimage from St. Paul’s Church, Ventura, to Ghana in […]
St. John’s Church, San Bernardino, and The Abundant Table Farm, a project of the Episcopal campus ministry at California State University Channel Islands, were two of 34 churches and organizations around the Episcopal Church that will receive funding through the Church Planting and Mission Enterprise Zones Grants, as approved by Executive Council at its October […]
by Elizabeth Rechter Recently I was in a diocesan meeting, and in the midst of a discussion. Suddenly, the room began to fill with the sounds of chimes, bells, and beeps. It was 4 p.m., the time suggested for prayers for our church to which all in our diocese had been invited. It was a […]
May 17, 1929 – October 1, 2016 The Rev. David Barnhouse, M.D., assisting priest at Trinity Church, Santa Barbara, died Oct. 1 at his home in Santa Barbara after a brief illness. He was 87. He is survived by Mary Alice, his wife of 64 years; three children and four grandchildren. Barnhouse was ordained to […]
The Rev. Canon John Taylor, vicar of St. John Chrysostom Church and School in Rancho Santa Margarita, has been nominated by petition as a candidate for bishop coadjutor in the Diocese of Los Angeles. Taylor’s nomination was approved by the diocesan Standing Committee in keeping with procedures set by the Bishop Coadjutor Search Committee. Taylor […]
November 22, 1938 – September 18, 2016 The Rev. Gordon Kevin Taylor, former rector of St. Mark’s Church, Downey, died Sept. 18, a week after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke. He was 77. A service will be held on Saturday, Sept. 24 at 11 a.m. at St. Matthias’ Episcopal Church, 7056 Washington Avenue, Whittier, where Taylor […]
[Los Angeles, Sept. 4, 2016] — The Bishop Coadjutor Search Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has named five candidates for nomination preceding election by Diocesan Convention meeting Dec. 2-3 in Ontario, Calif. The candidates are the Rev. Paul Fromberg, rector of St. Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco; the Rev. Rachel Nyback, rector […]
Episcopal Relief & Development is supporting the disaster response efforts of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, where crews have recently contained the Blue Cut fire in the hills north of San Bernardino. The blaze, which started Aug. 16, burned nearly 57 square miles of land and destroyed more than 100 homes. More than 82,000 […]
October 1, 1928 – July 18, 2016 The Rev. Richard Dwight Thomson, a former rector of Holy Trinity, Covina, and St. Paul’s, Tustin, died July 18 in South Carolina, where he had resided in recent years. He was 87. Survivors include his wife of 34 years, MaryLou; six children – Richard Thomson (Kathy), Michael Thomson […]
Troy Elder was deflated but not defeated; the Supreme Court had deadlocked, 4 – 4, over an Obama Administration initiative that would have provided deportation relief and work permits for an estimated five million people without legal documents who are currently living in the United States. “It (the deadlock) means that hundreds of thousands of kids and […]
In the shadows of Los Angeles, often called the homeless capital of the United States, thousands of youth like Marlon, Josue, Cherrick, and David find shelter any given night beside freeways, in hidden spaces, feeling vulnerable, isolated, invisible. “I ran away at 15 and slept on stairs,” says Marlon. “I don’t know if people were […]
