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[The Episcopal News] Kaelyn Chatfield, 13, and others in the St. Edmund’s Church youth group in San Marino, are crafting origami cranes in blue and yellow – the national colors of Ukraine – to aid people from the war-torn country. While folding the delicate, Japanese-inspired birds can feel frustrating at times, the goal, she said, […]
College-bound students in grades 1 – 12 will benefit from a new writing instruction program established by the Neighborhood Youth Association in memory of the late Canon Barbara S. Borsch, diocesan lay leader, and the Rt. Rev. Frederick H. Borsch, fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, both gifted educators and advocates for […]
[The Episcopal News] Call it progressive or even itinerant Holy Week worship – Episcopalians in Deanery 6 (Pomona Valley-Inland Empire) are collaborating to offer Wednesday evening Tenebrae at St. John’s, La Verne; a Maundy Thursday agape meal and foot-washing ceremony at St. Ambrose in Claremont; the solemn Good Friday liturgy at St. Paul’s, Pomona; and […]
[The Episcopal News] Ann Noble never dreamed her love for acting would lead her to Los Angeles County jails. Born and raised in Chicago, she moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to expand an already acclaimed career as actor, playwright, director, and theater company founder. Performing in a production of “Murder in the Cathedral” brought […]
[The Episcopal News] The Rev. Jana Milhon-Martin believes confession is a great way to unburden the soul – she just doesn’t think it always has to happen inside a church. So Martin, director of the diocesan Center for Lay Chaplaincy (CFLC), has created a pop-up “Confessions for All Humanity” experience, located, at least until the […]
[The Episcopal News] For Joie Zhang, 18, advocating for such global issues as climate change as a member of the presiding bishop’s delegation for the United Nations Committee on the Status of Women is both personal and pressing. “I still remember vividly the eerie sounds of the 2011 Santa Ana winds, in which ferocious gales […]
[The Episcopal News] Episcopalians across the Diocese of Los Angeles won’t just be waving palm branches and shouting Hosannas on Palm Sunday, they will also be able to officially receive consecrated wine during communion, Bishop Diocesan John Harvey Taylor announced to the March 10, 2022, regular meeting of Diocesan Council. “The Bishop’s Commission on Liturgy […]
[The Episcopal News] Bishop John Harvey Taylor has selected the theme “Back to the Holy City: The Hope of Christ in Our Time” for Diocesan Convention’s 2022 annual meeting and program year, and announced that Jerusalem’s Anglican Archbishop Hosam Naoum will address Convention in Riverside Nov. 12. Taylor also said that Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop […]
[The Episcopal News] Planting worshipping communities in underserved areas is just one aim of the Very Rev. Canon Gary Hall as he assumes leadership of the diocesan Program Group on Mission Congregations, beginning this month. “The biggest part of our work has historically been approving mission development grants (MDGs) from the diocese to mission congregations,” […]
[The Episcopal News] As the Rev. Jamesetta Hammons quilts the image of Absalom Jones, The Episcopal Church’s first Black priest, she wrestles with the way his ministry has shaped her own, more than two centuries after his death. “As a deacon, I’m called to be with everybody, no matter their station in life, or their […]
September 24, 1935 – February 15, 2022 Anita Edwards, wife of the Rev. Canon Paul Edwards, known as a graceful and gentle soul to all who knew her, died surrounded by her family on Feb. 15. She was 86, and had lived with multiple sclerosis since 1990. In addition to her husband, she is survived […]
[The Episcopal News] A Feb. 12 online survey of about 68 Southern California Episcopalians indicated that 31% of those responding had experienced, and 47% had witnessed incidents of racially based overt or subtle harassment at their churches. The poll was conducted among participants of “Love My Neighbor: Stand Against Hate,” an online bystander training hosted […]
