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Alyssa Voboril remembers her first conversation about race. The Madison, Wisconsin, native was 23, serving an Episcopal urban intern year in Los Angeles when she and other interns participated in a group activity led by her mentor, Canon Suzanne Edwards-Acton. “I remember it like it was yesterday,” Voboril, 31, told The Episcopal News recently. “The […]
October 1, 1954 – December 3, 2020 The Rev. Vincent Shamo, rector of St. Mary’s in Palms Church, Los Angeles, since 2005, died Dec. 3 after a long struggle with stomach cancer. He was 66. Survivors include his wife, Florence K. Shamo; their children, Patience Barnie, Vincent Agoe and Obed Agoe; and a grandson, Ezra […]
The Rev. Nontombi Naomi Tutu is very much her father’s daughter, yet from an early age was determined to chart her own course. The third child of 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond and Nomalizo Leah Tutu, she bears a striking resemblance to her father but has emerged from his shadow as an activist, […]
CPE — clinical pastoral education — was once designed to hone pastoral care skills for clergy-hopefuls only, but an exciting new program in the Los Angeles diocese aims to offer the training to laypersons also. The program, called CPE for Laity, is the vision of the Rev. Jana Milhon-Martin, CPE supervisor at Good Samaritan Hospital, […]
The Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart — Episcopal priest, former police officer and author of 2020’s Preaching Black Lives (Matter) — will keynote the Diocese of Los Angeles’ annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance, to be held online at 4 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021. “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community” is […]
Bishop Diane Jardine Bruce invites the diocesan community to “The Advent Gathering: Lessons, Carols & Fellowship” on Saturday, Dec. 12, 4:30 – 6 p.m. This virtual event, an Asian twist on the traditional Lessons & Carols, will feature Asian Pacific American-themed reflections and music set to Advent themes of hope, love, joy, peace, and Christ. […]
The St. John’s, San Bernardino ministry that houses recently released asylees from the Adelanto Detention Center was featured in a video presentation at the Nov. 20-21 virtual Border Ministries Summit hosted by the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego. The video, one of several reports of Episcopal Church work concerning immigrants and refugees, showcases Bishop Diocesan […]
[The Episcopal News, Nov. 22, 2020] Bringing experience in Southland parishes and her native Guatemala, the Rev. Norma Guerra will join the staff of the Diocese of Los Angeles on Dec. 1 as associate for formation and transition ministry, the Rev. Canon Melissa McCarthy, diocesan chief of staff, announced today. Guerra will play a key […]
Click on the titles to read these stories about the 2020 meeting of Diocesan Convention, which was held online Nov. 14 – 15. Links to convention videos are also listed. Virtual convention puts emphasis on servanthood, community and a new financial paradigm Although in the midst of “Covid exile” with the number of new infections […]
Diocesan Bishop John Harvey Taylor welcomed more than 2,000 Facebook and You Tube viewers to a Nov. 15 bilingual Spanish and English Eucharist from St. Paul’s Commons on the concluding day of the 125th annual – and first-ever virtual — meeting of the Diocese of Los Angeles. The Eucharist began with Taylor’s reminder to put […]
Although in the midst of “Covid exile” with the number of new infections rising, Southland Episcopalians remain “servants of the Spirit of the risen Christ and not the spirit of the age,” Bishop John Harvey Taylor told nearly 1,000 Zoom, Facebook and YouTube viewers Nov. 14 during the 125th annual — and first-ever virtual — […]
The Diocese of Los Angeles’ first-ever virtual convention was held on Nov. 14 and 15, 2020. It was centered at St. Paul’s Commons, where Bishop John Harvey Taylor, Canon to the Ordinary Melissa McCarthy and a small crew of diocesan staff and officers — socially distanced and masked when in proximity — led the meeting […]
