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July 25, 1931 – May 7, 2015 Canon Edmonde A. Haddad, former executive director of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, member of St. Bede’s Church, Los Angeles, and longtime member of the Program Group on Communications & Public Affairs and the editorial board of The Episcopal News, died on May 7. He was 83. […]
November 14, 1925 – April 6, 2015 The Rev. Clarke K. Oler – longtime parish associate of All Saints Church, Pasadena, and a former rector of All Saints, Beverly Hills – died April 6 at age 89 after several years of declining health. A celebration of Oler’s life is planned for 2 p.m. on Saturday, […]
Los Angeles Bishop Jon Bruno welcomed Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and other guests to a March 24 climate change crisis webcast from Campbell Hall Episcopal School in North Hollywood. “We (the city of Los Angeles) are the thief that steals most of the water in California and brings it here from the farming valleys […]
December 14, 1947 – March 12, 2015 The Rev. Giles Lee Asbury, retired chaplain at UCLA and former executive director of the Episcopal Church’s Province VIII, died March 12. He recently had entered rehabilitation care following hospitalization for cardiac issues. He was 67. Survivors include his wife, Yvonne Leatherwood Asbury, whom he married in 1984, […]
The Rt. Rev. Frederick Borsch, retired fifth bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles, and the Rev. Canon John Taylor, vicar of St. John Chrysostom Church in Rancho Santa Margarita, both released novels in 2014 that draw from their experiences in, respectively, academic life and politics. Such is the premise of My Life for Yours […]
Peace in the Holy Lands and the history of the Episcopal Church in Southern California were discussed at the first two Birdsall Lectures, held in January and February in Los Angeles. The new series is named for the first priest of the Congregation of St. Athanasius, Los Angeles, which is celebrating its 150th year of […]
Their faith is woven into their work as nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, organizers, artists and activists. They represent Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Hare Krishna, and Christian traditions, the latter including the Episcopal Church, the Latter-Day Saints, Christian Science and other denominations. Fifty young people ages 24 to 35 living and working in the greater […]
Southland Episcopalians say the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy overcomes time, ethnic, racial, religious and geographic divides, trumpeting a perennial message of hope, faith, courage and inspiration. Like 14-year-old Emily Fitton, who had “learned something about Dr. King vaguely in school where it was more talked about in my younger years, not so […]
The Rev. Canon Malcolm Boyd — whose human rights advocacy shaped most of his 30 books including the 1965 best-seller Are You Running With Me, Jesus? — died Feb. 27 while receiving private hospice care in Los Angeles. Severe complications of pneumonia caused Boyd’s death at age 91, said his life partner, Mark Thompson. Boyd […]
The Bishop Coadjutor Search Committee, charged by Diocesan Convention and the Standing Committee to seek nominees for a successor to Bishop Diocesan J. Jon Bruno upon his retirement in 2018, held its first meeting Feb. 10 and began to organize its work. Preparing a profile of the diocese and reviewing input received during Diocesan Convention’s […]
Bishop J. Jon Bruno announced on Jan. 28 that the Corporation of the Diocese has elected the Rev. Kirby Smith, vicar of St. Luke’s of-the-Mountains, La Crescenta, as treasurer of the diocese, and that he has appointed the Rev. James Prendergast of St. James’ Church, South Pasadena, as chancellor of the diocese. He also announced […]
The Rev. Lorenzo Lebrija, newly appointed bishop’s officer for development, told a Dec. 6 convention gathering that he hopes Southland Episcopalians will “dream big” by committing to the newly-created “Horizons and Heritage Fund” to support future creative ministries throughout the diocese. Citing the “Horizons and Heritage” video series chronicling the 150-year history of the Episcopal […]
