News

August 31, 2021

Short-staffed but determined, IRIS works overtime to assist refugees from Afghanistan, other nations

[The Episcopal News] As time runs out to evacuate vulnerable Afghans from the Taliban-controlled country, frantic callers have flooded the diocesan Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Services (IRIS) offices in Los Angeles’ Atwater Village, desperately seeking answers and aid for family members still trapped in the country. “The phones are ringing nonstop,” according to Meghan Taylor, […]

August 25, 2021

Episcopal, other organizations offer help to Haiti after earthquake

[The Episcopal News] A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti’s southern peninsula on Aug. 14, causing some 2,000 deaths, 9,000 injuries and destroying homes, businesses and infrastructure. The nation was already reeling from the assassination of its president, Jovenel Moïse, on July 7 and continuing economic and political crises, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as […]

August 25, 2021

Mitsuye Yamada: poet, professor, feminist, activist

[The Episcopal News] When doctors advised Mitsuye Yasutake Yamada in 1963 that she had only a year to live, the mother of four quickly got her affairs in order – most unconventionally. She got a job teaching English at Cypress College. She completed Camp Notes and Other Writings, a volume of poetry about her World […]

August 25, 2021

Webinar will explore best practices for living beyond crisis

[The Episcopal News] When we look at ourselves 17 months ago, we cannot help but to think in a world that literally had to shut down. The disruption and suffering caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic turmoil, the social upheaval, and violence continues to be challenging and even overwhelming for some of as all […]

August 25, 2021

Bloy House offers new four-week courses in September, October

Bloy House (Episcopal Theological School at Los Angeles) is offering several new online four-week noncredit classes this fall for church members. The fee for each course is $50, and all will be held via Zoom. Course offerings and presenters are: TUESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 7, 14, 21, 28, 7 p.m. One Nation, Under God: Understanding Christian Nationalism […]

August 25, 2021

The Gathering panel conversation will focus on ‘Celebrating Art and Spirituality’

Bishop Diane Jardine Bruce and The Gathering invite the diocesan community to an online panel conversation and discussion on “Celebrating Art and Spirituality as Asian Pacific Americans” on Sunday, Sept. 26, 4 – 5:30 p.m. This event will focus on how our journey in creation integrates our cultural identity and spirituality. This conversation will include […]

August 11, 2021

Ground blessing launches affordable housing project in Riverside

[The Episcopal News] Bishop John Harvey Taylor gathered on Aug. 11 with representatives of the Diocese of Los Angeles and its Deanery 7 to break and bless ground for an affordable housing project at St. Michael’s Episcopal Ministry Center, Riverside. “It made us Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles representatives feel more like stewards than landowners. […]

August 11, 2021

Talking circles offer support and strength for Native American women

Janelle Fast Horse Hummingbird has joined the women of a Native American talking circle for at least a dozen years, gathering mostly on the St. Paul’s Commons rooftop to share stories, to offer support, to pray, to bless one another with an eagle feather and smoldering sage around a sacred fire, and to sing the […]

August 3, 2021

L.A. Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce accepts nomination as West Missouri bishop provisional

[The Episcopal News] The Rt. Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce, bishop suffragan of the Diocese of Los Angeles since 2010, has accepted the nomination of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri to become its bishop provisional, beginning Dec. 1, 2021, both dioceses announced today. Bruce – who has strengthened Southland ministries […]

July 28, 2021

Los Angeles representatives will take leadership roles at 2022 General Convention

[The Episcopal News] The Diocese of Los Angeles will be well-represented on influential committees at the 80th General Convention of The Episcopal Church, meeting next summer (July 5 – 14, 2022) in Baltimore, Maryland. Seven of Los Angeles’ eight deputies, who were elected at the 2019 meeting of Diocesan Convention, have been assigned to the […]

July 21, 2021

Mission churches, increased giving to MSF, reconciliation report are among topics at July Diocesan Council meeting

[The Episcopal News] Mission congregations in the Diocese of Los Angeles must submit their requests for 2022 funding through the mission development grant process by July 31, the Rev. Canon Kelli Grace Kurtz, chair of the Program Group on Mission Congregations, announced at the July 15 meeting of Diocesan Council. All mission congregations should have […]

July 21, 2021

Standing Committee recommends changes – some already in process – as result of reconciliation report

[The Episcopal News] The Rev. Kay Sylvester presented the July 15 meeting of Diocesan Council with 10 Standing Committee recommendations in response to the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center’s final report after a 15-month diocese-wide mediation process sought to heal divisions that erupted over a 2015 proposed sale of St. James’ Church in Newport Beach. It […]