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d. June 17, 2021 [The Episcopal News] Word was recently received that longtime diocesan lay leader Charlotte Jean McKay “Scottie” DeShazo died peacefully, surrounded by her family, on June 17, 2021. Among her many charitable interests in Los Angeles, DeShazo was a patron of the ARCS Foundation and Neighborhood Youth Association, Venice. She was an […]
[The Episcopal News] The 2021 meeting of Diocesan Convention will take place in person on Saturday, Nov. 13 at the Riverside Convention Center, concluding with Eucharist. Along with the usual reports of work, approval of the next year’s budget, election of officers and other business, the convention will host the biannual Margaret Parker Lecture, delivered […]
[The Episcopal News] The departure of Bishop Suffragan Diane M. Jardine Bruce to become bishop provisional of the Diocese of West Missouri – pending its convention vote in early November – left Bishop Diocesan John Harvey Taylor with a dilemma: How to make sure that each congregation in the Diocese of Los Angeles is able […]
[The Episcopal News] The Community of Divine Love is making a “bittersweet” move from San Gabriel to San Luis Obispo, in the Diocese of El Camino Real, but hopes to maintain a Southland presence, Sister Greta Ronningen announced during a Sept. 25 special online gathering. “There were very exciting doors that kept opening wide […]
[The Episcopal News] The Rev. Sylvia Sweeney will present “Ministry in an Age of Ecological Crisis,” a semester-long academic class open to lay and clergy auditors, during the spring semester at Bloy House (Episcopal Theological School, Los Angeles). The class will be held in person at the seminary’s Glendale campus from 1 to 4 p.m. […]
As canon to the ordinary of the Diocese of Los Angeles, the Rev. Melissa McCarthy’s responsibilities include joining Commission on Ministry weekends, overseeing the post-pandemic reopening of St. Paul’s Commons, supporting and connecting with staff, deanery deans, vestries, bishop’s committees and diocesan bodies, Sunday congregational visitations, even Title IV disciplinary matters. There are no average […]
[The Episcopal News] Mary Nichols, whose leadership as chair of the California Air Resources Board has played a key role in guiding statewide environmental advances for five decades, will deliver Diocesan Convention’s biennial Margaret Parker Lecture, set for Nov. 13 in Riverside. Convention delegates – together with all who will view the lecture via livestream […]
Girls’ Friendly Society-Los Angeles is resuming post-pandemic in-person meetings this fall with a return to its roots by focusing on justice issues and empowering young girls as community activists, says diocesan GFS President Margaret Nolde. A new curriculum created by the church-wide GFS, “Let’s Learn to Step Up and Speak Out,” is a light-hearted, agile, […]
Los Angeles Bishop Suffragan Diane M. Jardine Bruce may become the next provisional bishop of the Diocese of West Missouri, but she’ll always be an Angeleno, she said at the Sept. 9 regular meeting of Diocesan Council, the last one she expects to attend. “I’ll always be one of you,” she told council members, adding […]
The Episcopal Church is positioned to help bring together a polarized nation by being an authentic spiritual home for its adherents and also maintaining an open door to other faith traditions in order to heal division and suspicion, Jack Miles – Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of God: A Biography and God in the Qur’an […]
January 28, 1924 – September 5, 2021 The Rev. Barbara Coxe Barnum, deacon at St. Michael’s Ministry Center, died Sept. 5, 2021 at 97. She was actively engaged in ministry until the very end of her life. Survivors include her two children, Barbara Barnum Morrissey and Samuel Barnum (Bunny); her four grandchildren, Sona Morrissey Renker, […]
Transformation happens every weekend at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Laguna Hills – bright blue, turquoise, and red sunshades pop up and the parking lot becomes a tianguis, an open-air market where vendors hawk a range of wares, from clothing, toys and jewelry to household items, and the air is filled with the mouth-watering aroma […]
