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When U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and his wife, Edith, arrived unexpectedly at L.A.’s St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral for the 11 a.m. service on Sunday, Sept. 21, 1919, they heard not only Dean William McCormack’s sermon, titled “God’s Formula for Despondency,” but also the uplifting strains of the church’s impressive Murray Harris pipe organ, then in its […]
September 17, 1919 – October 26, 2011 Canon La Rue E. Shepard, who since 1926 attended St. Philip the Evangelist Church in Los Angeles and served as one of its most dedicated lay leaders, died on October 26. He was 92. Requiem Eucharist is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 5, at St. Philip’s. […]
HIV/AIDS is a worldwide epidemic, not just a local one, Los Angeles Bishop Suffragan Mary Glasspool told several dozen people who attended the Oct. 16 annual diocesan service honoring those living with the disease and remembering those who have died from it. “We need to break down the barriers that keep us from seeing that […]
Singing “we shall overcome,” the Rev. Canon George Regas and more than a dozen other anti-war protestors were arrested Oct. 7 in front of the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles after rallying against the war in Afghanistan. The rally — to draw attention to the tenth anniversary of the war — drew a multi-ethnic […]
In a surprising rollercoaster of a day, 10 Muslim students –arrested for heckling the Israeli ambassador to the United States during a speech at the University of California’s Irvine campus last year — on Sept. 23 were convicted, sentenced and said they will appeal the guilty verdict. Gasps and muffled weeping filled the packed Southern […]
The lanterns from the OneLight celebration, distributed during a service of remembrance for those who died Sept. 11 and as a show of interfaith unity—continue to illuminate temples and churches in and around the Southland. One day after the Sept. 10 service that drew 1,500 people of faith to the steps of the Los Angeles […]
A standing-room-only interfaith crowd—young and old, male and female, gay and straight, politicians and priests, blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians — gathered at the Los Angeles city hall steps Sept. 10 to mark the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and to turn “the darkest day in American history” into a “OneLight” evening prayer service […]
October 6, 1925 – August 26, 2011 The Rev. James Furnas Bogardus, Jr., who was for many years an assistant priest at St. Andrew’s Church, Torrance, died on Aug. 26. He was 85. The Rev. Stephen Williams will preside at a memorial service at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13 at St. Gregory’s Church in […]
[The Episcopal News] The Rev. Michael Cooper was as surprised as anyone, including local authorities, when a stolen Rembrandt drawing turned up in his Encino church office two days after it went missing from a ritzy Marina del Rey hotel. It’s anybody’s guess how the 11-inch-by-6-inch quill-pen-and-ink drawing made the 20-mile trip from an Aug. […]
Episcopal Church officials are among the religious leaders joining Bread for the World and other organizations forming “The Circle of Protection,” a national nonpartisan movement committed to resisting cuts to the United States budget “that undermine the lives, dignity, and rights of poor and vulnerable people,” according to a July 20 press release from the organization. On […]
Bloy House students will be able to earn a joint master of divinity degree through the Episcopal Theological School at Claremont and the distributive learning program of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a new program, according to a recent statement released by the seminaries. The first student to participate in the joint […]
The life and ministry of the Rt. Rev. Robert Marshall Anderson, 77, was celebrated May 16 at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul before an overflow gathering of several hundred from across the six-county Los Angeles diocese. Anderson, who died May 3 in Minneapolis, was remembered as a great bishop, priest, mentor, and an ardent […]
