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January 22, 2020

March 7 Ministry Fair to offer wide variety of workshops

Opportunities to learn about a wide variety of church-related topics, plus community worship and fellowship, will be offered at the diocesan Ministry Fair on Saturday, March 7 at Campbell Hall in Studio City. All lay and clergy members of the diocesan community are invited to the fair, which will begin at 8 a.m. with coffee […]

January 15, 2020

New Echo Park exhibit to feature paintings by veteran priest Warner Traynham

“Abstractions in Oil,” an exhibit of paintings by the Rev. Canon Warner Traynham, will be on view at St. Paul’s Commons Jan. 21 – March 31, with an Artist’s Preview Reception set for 3 – 6 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 25. Bishop John Harvey Taylor will host an reception Feb. 13, 6 – 8 p.m., […]

January 14, 2020

The Reverend Edward Ronald Hulbert

February 2, 1940 – January 8, 2020 The Rev. Edward Ronald “Ron” Hulbert, retired vicar of St. Richard’s Church in Lake Arrowhead, died Jan. 8 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to which he had recently relocated from Palm Springs. He was 79. Received into the Episcopal priesthood by Bishop J. Jon Bruno in 2012, Hulbert worked […]

January 8, 2020

Workshop on Feb. 15 to consider church’s role in civil discourse

“Make Me an Instrument of Peace: A Guide to Civil Discourse,” a workshop addressing the problems of a “polarized, hyperbolic and angry” public conversation, will be held on Saturday, Feb. 15, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. at St. Paul’s Commons, 840 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles 90026 (formerly known as the Cathedral Center). The program […]

January 8, 2020

Good Samaritan Hospital joins PIH Health Network

[PIH Health Network] PIH Health announced on Dec. 23 that Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, has officially joined its integrated healthcare network. This addition brings PIH Health to 7,100 full-time employees,three hospitals totaling 1,130 licensed beds, and 26 outpatient clinics. “Good Samaritan Hospital has an impressive 130-year history and we are thrilled to welcome their […]

December 18, 2019

SAVE THE DATE: Ministry Fair on March 7 will ‘equip the saints to serve’

The Ministry Fair, themed “Equipping the Saints to Serve,” will return to the Diocese of Los Angeles on Saturday, March 7, 2020, hosted by Campbell Hall, the Episcopal school in North Hollywood. All are invited. Organizers are seeking proposals for workshops in the following ministry areas: Finance (e.g., managing church finances, narrative budgeting) Stewardship (e.g., […]

December 11, 2019

Becca Stevens of Thistle Farm to deliver 2020 Stern Lecture in Pacific Palisades

The Parish of Saint Matthew, Pacific Palisades, has announced that the Rev. Rebecca Stevens will be its featured speaker at the 2020 Stern Lecture, to be held at the church on Saturday, Feb. 1. Stevens will also serve as guest preacher at both services on Sunday, Feb. 2. Becca Stevens is an author, speaker, priest, […]

December 5, 2019

Professor Devon Carbado to return for 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. celebration

PROFESSOR DEVON CARBADO OF UCLA will again keynote the diocese’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, to be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18 at Holy Faith Church, Inglewood. Carbado, an associate vice chancellor at UCLA and a professor at the university’s school of law, addressed last year’s gathering, saying on that […]

December 4, 2019

Estar Despierto

A MEDIDA QUE COMIENZA  la época de Adviento, saludos en el nombre de nuestro Señor Jesucristo al pueblo de Dios en la Diócesis Episcopal de Los Ángeles. Estas semanas ocupadas nos guían inevitable y gloriosamente hacia la Navidad. La fiesta de la Natividad ocurre en una fecha que la gente fiel eligió durante los tiempos […]

December 1, 2019

Awake!

As the season of Advent begins, greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the people of God in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. Advent is our season of maximum attentiveness. These busy weeks lead inevitably and gloriously to Christmas. The feast of the Nativity occurs on a date that faithful people […]

November 21, 2019

Diocesan Convention 2019 Reports

A compilation of stories, photos and videos from the 2019 meeting of Diocesan Convention.   Taylor tells convention he is ‘recklessly optimistic’ about the church, the future Los Angeles Bishop John Harvey Taylor on Nov. 15 welcomed the 124th annual diocesan convention back to Riverside, issuing a call for community activism and neighborly curiosity, and […]