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At 8 a.m. on Ash Wednesday, the Rev. George Packer will be at the corner of Topanga Canyon and Ventura boulevards in Woodland Hills, blessing commuters with ashes. He’ll be there at 6 p.m., too. Packer is deacon at Prince of Peace Episcopal Church, Woodland Hills, and in addition to organizing the parish’s “Ashes to […]
Harriett Elizabeth “Betts” Hall, longtime lay leader at St. Athanasius Episcopal Church in Echo Park, died Dec. 5. Interment of ashes will be at 2 p.m. on March 9 in the church’s Lazarus Chapel columbarium, 840 Echo Park Ave., Los Angeles. Hall is survived by her daughters and son – Deborah Campbell, Rebecca Ollice, and […]
Keep calm and carry on but have a plan in place now in case Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents show up at houses of worship, Samir Hafez and Tony Gevorgian, students from the UC Irvine Law School Immigrant Rights Clinic, told about 125 people attending a Feb. 16 interfaith gathering at St. Paul’s Commons, […]
Local responses to the devastating Los Angeles area wildfires and to a federal crackdown on immigration were topics at the Feb. 13 regular online meeting of Diocesan Council. Both Bishop John Harvey Taylor and Canon to the Ordinary Melissa McCarthy expressed gratitude for contributions to the diocesan One Body and One Spirit Appeal, totaling nearly […]
Application form online here; donation link here; impacted parishes also offer donation portals (please scroll down for links) With the support of 1,050 generous donors to date, the diocesan One Body & One Spirit Appeal has raised $500,016 from which a total of $154,500 has been allocated in 54 fire-relief grants, including 17 new disbursements pending approval […]
“Sacred Resistance 2.0” wants to connect with Episcopalians across the Diocese of Los Angeles, as the group creates regional hubs, offers trainings and resources, and reprises its 2016 networks in the wake of a federal immigration crackdown, group representatives said at a Feb. 6 online gathering of clergy. “Offering a Safe Haven for Immigrants: An Interfaith Workshop for […]
The search committee charged with identifying candidates for election as eighth bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles is at work and moving forward, leaders say. Organized last fall by the diocesan Standing Committee, the search committee will identify a slate from which Diocesan Convention, scheduled to vote this November, will elect a successor to […]
Meeting with church leaders hardest hit by the Palisades and Eaton fires, Episcopal Relief & Development (ERD) President/CEO Rob Radtke and colleagues visited the Diocese of Los Angeles Jan. 31-Feb. 3, offering resources for disaster response and resiliency. Bishop John Harvey Taylor and the Rev. Canon Melissa McCarthy, diocesan canon to the ordinary, welcomed Radtke […]
The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles is preparing for “a multi-year period of rebuilding and recovery,” and possible climate migration after wildfires destroyed some 15,000 churches, schools, businesses and homes, and killed at least 27, Canon to the Ordinary Melissa McCarthy told a Jan. 30 online gathering of supporters from across The Episcopal Church. L.A. […]
One of the casualties of the recent Eaton Fire was Norman, a 10-foot animatronic werewolf who often drew the local community to the “Fair Oaks Home” in the Pasadena area, one of four sober living residences that had been operated by the Church of Our Saviour, San Gabriel. “Norman was an ugly, scary thing that […]
Episcopalians across the Diocese of Los Angeles are mobilizing networks of Sacred Resistance to support vulnerable communities targeted by the new federal administration’s threats of mass deportations and rollback of other rights. In its first week, the Trump White House launched a broad crackdown on immigration, closing off access to asylum protections at U.S. borders, […]
Application form online here; donation link here; impacted parishes also offer donation portals This week’s 10 pending fire-relief grants totaling $29,000 are set to be drawn from the diocesan One Body & One Spirit Appeal fund which has raised $419,299 in 931 gifts to date. Last week, $34,000 was disbursed in 13 grants. A concise application form […]
