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[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 […]
[The Episcopal News] Rodell Jefferson had earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, in 2018, but like many young adults still wondered, “what do I do now?” “I kept saying I just want to love people for a living,” Jefferson told The Episcopal News recently. “People were telling me, ‘you’re going […]
[The Episcopal News] Members of the St. Paul’s Commons staff have joined with some of their counterparts from the Diocese of Northern California for a “very appropriate for Black History month” ten-week anti-racism program, Bishop Diocesan John Harvey Taylor announced at the Feb. 10 meeting of Diocesan Council. “We are reading about white fragility, white […]
[The Episcopal News] For Prism staff and volunteers, the need to be companions and to share communion with those in local jails and detention centers in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic has never been more urgent or more rewarding. “People are daunted by the issue of incarceration, but that’s not what we’re doing,” says […]
[The Episcopal News] As the Bishop’s Commission on Gospel Justice and Community Care continues to examine policing across Southern California communities, chairperson Sister Patricia Sarah Terry is meeting with clergy and asking Episcopalians to join a letter-writing campaign in support of including mental health first responders in crisis situations. She is also seeking art, articles, […]
For the Rev. Norma Guerra and other members of the border ministries committee of the Diocese of Los Angeles, a Jan. 17 – 22 trip along “the migrant road,” from Guatemala City to Tapachula, Mexico, was both heartbreaking and hopeful. “It was really bittersweet, very moving for me to be there, like my two worlds […]
[The Episcopal News] Buoyed by recent priestly ordinations and a gathering of Province 8 bishops hosted at the St. Paul’s Commons Retreat Center, Diocesan Bishop John Harvey Taylor told the Jan. 13 meeting of Diocesan Council that “rediscovering mission, optimism and responsibility as stewards of true Christian orthodoxy” are themes as the program year gets […]
