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Bishop Andrew Yoshimichi Oohata of Tokyo — in California to attend the 40th anniversary celebration of Episcopal Asiamerica Ministries — on June 26 addressed a gathering of about 60 people at St. Mary’s, Mariposa, Los Angeles’ historically Japanese American congregation. Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce, who was among more than 40 Angelenos who also attended […]
“Edgy” is the way the Rev. Maryetta Anschutz describes the Episcopal School of Los Angeles (ESLA) on the last day of the school year for its very first class, consisting of 27 sixth through eighth graders. The campus encompasses the surrounding Hollywood neighborhood, from the main “Schoolhouse” at Santa Monica Boulevard and Lillian Way, to […]
The landmark Church of the Epiphany in East Los Angeles has been called a monument to the Chicano Rights Movement, and if its stones could talk they would tell of ground-breaking political and social activism, of grape boycotts and visits by United Farm Workers organizer Cesar Chavez and other leaders; of mariachi masses and folklorico […]
Proclaimed by Pasadena city street banners, by a new logo and website and — most importantly — by those who’ve experienced it, Hillsides (www.hillsides.org) has for one hundred years created lasting change for children and their families in the foster care system. A century after its founding, the Pasadena-based agency has the same mission, but […]
(Updated 6-28-13) Marriage equality for all was reaffirmed today by the Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, bishop of the six-county Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, who commented after the U.S. Supreme Court’s announcement of its rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Prop. 8. “Today we reaffirm that marriage equality does indeed […]
These days, the Rev. Canon Malcolm Boyd prefers quiet revolutions to the public upheavals that have distinguished his life and times for decades. The Hollywood executive turned Episcopal priest, Freedom Rider, anti-war and gay rights activist, author, playwright, social critic and church revivalist will be 90 on June 8 and has been busy being filmed […]
(Santa Ana, Calif., May 6, 2013) – Orange County Superior Court Judge Kim G. Dunning today reaffirmed her May 1 final orders that property occupied by St. James Church, Newport Beach, is held in trust for the current and future ministry of the Diocese of Los Angeles and the wider Episcopal Church. “All the church […]
July 7, 1944 – May 1, 2013 Toni Rae Bruno Taix was born July 7, 1944, in Los Angeles, where she died May 1, 2013, at Good Samaritan Hospital. She is survived by her loving family: her brother, the Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, and sister-in-law, Mary Bruno of Pasadena; her niece, Jonelle Bruno; two […]
Billowing white and royal blue garments in African style filled St. Mark’s Church, Van Nuys, on March 24 as a group of women from Kampala, Uganda, helped launch a new chapter of the Mothers’ Union at the San Fernando Valley parish. Bishop Catharine Roskam, former bishop suffragan of the Diocese of Massachusetts and now resident […]
Beth Bojarski is talking about building relationships and reaching out as she reaches for blue-, brown- and white-shelled homegrown eggs in the commercial kitchen at the Camp Stevens dining hall. Eggs are just one of many wonders the camp’s new executive director is celebrating this particular day: “We’ve got about one hundred chickens now; they’re […]
For Tim Alderson, the new executive director of “Seeds of Hope,” coordinating efforts to feed the hungry and undernourished throughout the diocese is a pretty simple equation—lots of churches have available land, lots of people need food — so, he says, “Let’s get to work.” That “three million people, including a quarter of all the […]
April 4, 1930 – April 26, 2013 The Very Rev. Robert G. (Bob) Oliver, a former dean of the American Cathedral in Paris, died April 26 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was 83. Oliver was ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Florida in 1960. He was rector of two mission congregations in Georgia and […]
