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[The Episcopal News] A summer youth program and an immigrant welcome center will expand in coming weeks through the new Lydia Lopez Center for Community Empowerment, launched April 21 with a fiesta benefit that raised more than $102,000 in support.Bishop John Harvey Taylor opened the festivities by greeting attendees including actor Edward James Olmos and […]
[The Episcopal News] Look for big changes, exciting possibilities and “a lot of room to grow” in the very near future for Bloy House – the Episcopal Theological School at Los Angeles – including relocating from Glendale to Echo Park and calling a new dean to oversee classes and operations. “The possibilities are endless in […]
[The Episcopal News] When visitors become members at St. Paul’s Church in Pomona, “it totally renews my faith,” says Sandra Martinez Moore. “I believe it is a sign God sends us that we are doing what we’re supposed to be doing, what God is calling us to do and that we’re trying the best we […]
[The Episcopal News] The problem with the deacon’s mass? It’s the name itself, for one thing. It’s true that, according to the catechism and church tradition, deacons have assisted priests and bishops in the administration of Holy Eucharist, both as chalice bearers and in settings where a priest was not available. The instructions on p. […]
Actor and activist Edward James Olmos has known the Rev. Richard Estrada and the late Canon Lydia Lopez for years. Born in east Whittier, Lydia marched for Chicano and farmworker rights and fought to keep insurance companies and transit officials from disadvantaging Hispanic neighborhoods. She also helped form two generations of ordained clergy in the […]
[The Episcopal News] In the current climate, where some 484 anti-LGBTQ+ bills are proposed across the nation and local school boards are increasingly becoming culture war battlegrounds, the Program Group on LGBTQ+ Ministry – besides serving as a resource for the diocese and wider Episcopal church – aims to focus on advocacy, training and encouraging […]
[The Episcopal News] The 81st meeting of General Convention will convene June 23 – 28 in Louisville, Kentucky. A major portion of its business will be the election of the 28th presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church to succeed the Most Rev. Michael Curry, who will conclude his nine-year term in November of this year. On […]
[The Episcopal News – April 10, 2024] “Se Habla English” is a new model of ministry that offers a fresh approach to traditional Latino outreach by providing second-, third-, and fourth-generation Latinos, or “Later Generation Latinos,” worship in English yet within their familiar cultural context, the Rev. Carlos Ruvalcaba told a recent New Camino gathering […]
As a bishop in The Episcopal Church, I grieve the harsh language about our trans siblings contained in the Vatican’s new declaration entitled “Dignitas Infinita.” For their own sake, people should undertake gender transition only after deep, careful discernment. But by now most of us have relatives and friends who have achieved a measure of […]
[The Episcopal News] The Education Committee of the Bishop’s Commission on Climate Change for the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has proposed that Earth Day 2024 be commemorated with the first annual “Ring Out for Earth.” The committee invites every parish, mission, school, and institution within the six-county diocese to ring bells, pray or meditate […]
[The Episcopal News] Bringing girls together doesn’t normally include the use of power tools, but judging by the first Firefly Program sessions teaching basic electrician’s skills, perhaps it should. At the core of the Firefly Program, based at St. Stephen’s Church, Hollywood, is the belief that women are powerful. The first Firefly session began in […]
The annual clergy Renewal of Vows service was held on Tuesday, March 26 at St. John’s Cathedral in Los Angeles. Bishop John Harvey Taylor preached; Canon to the Ordinary Melissa McCarthy and the Rev. Norma Guerra, associate for Formation & Transition Ministry, co-celebrated the Eucharist. Bishop Taylor led deacons and priests in the renewal of […]
