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Underscoring pastoral support “in the midst of an existential crisis about the future of two whole communities,” Bishop John Harvey Taylor invited Diocesan Council’s Jan. 9 meeting to suspend regular business in favor of conversation and consultation, noting the diocese still will come together to celebrate the Jan. 11 ordinations of four new priests despite […]
Relief contributions requested via diocesela.org/annual-appeal [The Episcopal News] – Locally and nationally, the Episcopal community has rallied together, in a resilient outpouring of prayers, love and support as out-of-control Southern California wildfires blazed a second straight day, destroying thousands of acres, homes, schools, and an Episcopal church among various houses of worship and historic buildings, […]
Relief contributions requested via diocesela.org/annual-appeal Among the 1,000-plus structures lost in still-raging Southland firestorms are homes of scores of members of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, where St. Mark’s Church in Altadena and parish rectories at St. Matthew’s, Pacific Palisades, also have been destroyed, sources confirm. From the Pacific coast to the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountain […]
The hospitality of St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in L.A.’s Mar Vista community will help Neighborhood Youth Association (NYA) – a diocesan institution since 1906 – strengthen its mission of 100% college placement for under-resourced students in 2025 and beyond. Effective Jan. 8, at the invitation of the parish, NYA will relocate its afterschool mentoring and […]
[The Episcopal News] – The reconstitution of Sacred Resistance, the diocesan task force to support immigrants and undocumented workers; empowerment of local and youth ministry; and a diocesan “rest of convention” recap figured prominently at the Dec. 12 meeting of Diocesan Council, via Zoom. The diocese, along with CLUE, or Clergy and Laity United for […]
The Bishop Coadjutor Search Committee that will nominate candidates for election in 2025 as successor to Bishop Diocesan John Harvey Taylor upon his 2026 retirement held its first retreat meeting Nov. 23 and released a Dec. 17 letter noting progress and next steps. Co-chairs Thomas Diaz, lay director of connection and care on staff at […]
Dot Leach, chair of the diocesan Program Group on Ecumenical and Interreligious Life, is the recipient of the 2024 Sandra Hutchens Interfaith Community Service Award, conferred at a Nov. 14 luncheon by Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes. “Dot Leach was selected to be our 2024 Honoree because of her unwavering commitment as an interfaith leader […]
St. Stephen’s, Hollywood, is one of eight recipients of a recent creation care grant through The Episcopal Church’s Task Force on the Care of Creation and Environmental Racism. St. Stephens was awarded $15,000 for it’s “community nutrition” project, a recent initiative among the several food and environmental justice projects at St. Stephen’s. The grant will […]
Immigration organizers, interfaith leaders, and others met Sunday, Dec. 8, to discuss immigration justice and strategies for the coming year, at a solidarity forum organized by Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE Justice) and the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, held at St. Paul’s Commons, with more than 100 in attendance. The forum […]
Bishop Brookhart C. Franklin Brookhart, Jr. retired in 2018 after 15 years as ninth bishop of the Diocese of Montana. He began visiting congregations in the Diocese of Los Angeles in early 2020, but his schedule was interrupted by the COVID quarantine. Born in West Virginia and raised in West Virginia and Ohio, Brookhart graduated […]
Editorial duties for The Episcopal News – the longstanding official publication of the Diocese of Los Angeles – have been realigned after Canon Janet Kawamoto, on Nov. 22 concluded her 22-year tenure as editor of weekly and monthly editions, prior to her retirement next year. Kawamoto, a parishioner and vestry member of Grace Church in […]
[The Episcopal News] – One of the most effective ways people of faith can help combat climate change is to start talking about it, in ways that connect people’s personal experiences with hope and action, atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe told a Nov. 20 webinar hosted by the Bishop’s Commission on Climate Change. As the earth […]
