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[The Episcopal News] Tyre Nichols and other victims of violence – and especially of the recent mass shootings in Monterey Park in the Diocese of Los Angeles – were remembered at an emotional Jan. 29 multilingual multimedia prayer vigil at the Episcopal Church of Our Saviour in San Gabriel, attended by Bishop John Harvey Taylor, […]
My siblings in Christ: I write to thank our diocesan family for your fierce, faithful prayers this week for the victims of the shootings in Monterey Park and San Mateo County, their families and friends, and all members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. Our thoughts naturally rushed first to the people of […]
[The Episcopal News] Canon Lydia Lopez – who for more than 50 years served the Diocese of Los Angeles and wider Episcopal Church as a lay leader, civil rights advocate, and self-described “interpreter” across cultures – died Jan. 16 at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. She was 80 and until recent months was engaged in […]
November 22, 1934 – December 27, 2022 [The Episcopal News] The Rev. George Six, onetime vicar of Christ the King Church, Palmdale (1995 – 1999), and briefly rector of St. Matthew’s Church, Pacific Palisades (1991 – 1992), died Dec. 27, 2022 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, where he has lived in recent years. He was 88, […]
[The Episcopal News] Bishop John Harvey Taylor’s vision for the Diocese of Los Angeles includes affordable housing on at least 25% of church campuses; the prayerful hope that he and fellow diocesan leaders will be able to find the resources for staff support to facilitate those partnerships as well as for fundraising; and accommodating the […]
[The Episcopal News] The Rev. John William Conrad, D.Min, rector of All Saints’ Church, Riverside, from 2008 to 2018, died Jan. 16 of pancreatic cancer. Though he and his wife, Shannon, had recently divided their time between homes in Michigan and Mexico, he passed away in Riverside during a holiday visit.
[The Episcopal News] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, along with Bishop John Harvey Taylor and Mayor Karen Bass, issued a rousing call for housing and socioeconomic justice at the Jan. 15 annual King Day celebration in the Diocese of Los Angeles, where more than 40,000 are homeless and five people die daily on the streets. Curry […]
[The Episcopal News] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry galvanized hundreds of Episcopalians from across Southern and Central California who packed St. John’s Cathedral in Los Angeles for the Jan. 14 Bishop’s Dinner, invoking the image of a huge Ghanian tree with centuries-old root systems as a hopeful compass for living in globally challenging times. “There is […]
[The Episcopal News] The Rev. Canon Susan Russell, diocesan Canon for Engagement Across Difference – once “a suburban housewife and soccer mom with the boat slip and French doors and Junior League life” and now a globally recognized lesbian priest activist – has starred in a documentary about her odd friendship with a Mormon filmmaker, preached […]
[The Episcopal News] Congregations considering launching or expanding ministry to Latino members of their communities are invited to join the Program Group on Hispanic Ministries and the Rev. Canon Anthony Guillen, The Episcopal Church’s missioner for Latino Ministries, for New Camino, a two-day in-person seminar with a fresh take on Latino/Hispanic ministries. New Camino, to […]
[The Episcopal News] Like the Christ child sleeping in a borrowed manger, an unhoused newborn boy and his young parents sheltered in a loaned RV on L.A.’s Westside. “It was Christmastime a year ago,” volunteer community organizer Bitta Sharma said Dec. 17 at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, Mar Vista, where L.A. Neighbors4Neighbors hosts a monthly […]
April 30, 1924 – December 28, 2022 [The Episcopal News] The Rev. Joseph Austin Erickson, Jr., clinical psychologist and a former rector of St. Mark’s Church, Upland (1954 – 1963), died Dec. 28 at his home at Mt. San Antonio Gardens in Pomona. He was 98. Survivors include his wife, Catherine Jo Henley-Erickson, a retired […]
