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The Southern California C.S. Lewis Society will present The Pacific Inklings Festival and General Meeting on Saturday, March 9, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Heath Building 100 and The Great Commission Hall at Vanguard University, 55 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa. The event will feature “merchants of rare and exotic wares,” according to the announcement. Admission […]
For vocational deacon Kathryn Derose, bringing the world’s concerns to the church has meant linking parishes and parks to boost physical activity; pressing pastors to preach healthy eating and promote gardening and Zumba classes; and exploring food insecurity and stigmas affecting the HIV-infected. Her diaconal ministry at St. Augustine’s, Santa Monica, and her vocation as […]
For the families and friends of those killed a year ago on Feb. 14 in Parkland, Florida, and for those injured in countless other ways in the massacre, Valentine’s Day hearts will always be pierced, shattered, and sore wounded. In print and on the airwaves, the debate about preventing more acts of mass violence, especially […]
As Seeds of Hope enters its sixth year, the diocesan food justice ministry just keeps on growing. The ministry — and executive director Tim Alderson, a fifth-generation California farmer — feature prominently in L.A. Foodways, a documentary film that explores the Southland’s agricultural legacy, current food waste challenges and opportunities to bring fresh foods to […]
On Jan. 9, 2019, a beacon of light cut across the night sky, beckoning several thousand people from Montecito’s Manning Park to All Saints by- the-Sea Church as community residents gathered to remember those who died in the deadly mud and debris flow a year earlier. “Everybody had a flameless candle; the park was awash […]
Especially in the area of civil rights and racial justice, “law and morality are not the same thing,” Devon Carbado, a law professor at UCLA, told some 250 people at the diocesan Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, held Jan. 20 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Furthermore, he said, “The civil rights trajectory, the pathway […]
The Very Rev. Frank Alton and other members of Episcopal Sacred Resistance, the diocesan sanctuary task force, are determining next steps after a December trip to El Barretal, a former entertainment venue turned refugee camp for 2,500 asylum-seekers in Tijuana, Mexico. “If you know, you love,” Los Angeles Bishop John Harvey Taylor said in an […]
International soccer fans won’t want to miss the March 7 Football Round Up set to feature veteran players and commentators Stuart Holden of Fox Sports and Robbie Earle of NBC, an evening in Century City benefiting the Neighborhood Youth Association, a diocesan institution specializing in college placement for low-income students. “As the European football season […]
Music from immigration activist and singer Sandra Montes and a series of imaginative monologues based on the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus — from the Annunciation to old age on Patmos — will be featured in “Through the Eyes of Mary,” a special liturgy on March 3 celebrating the “Our Sister’s Keeper” exhibit […]
The Gathering: A Space for Asian-American Spirituality will meet on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2 – 4 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum for “Behind Barbed Wire: Keeping Children Safe and Families Together.” The Gathering is among the sponsoring organizations of the event, which marks the Day of Remembrance, the 77th anniversary of Executive Order […]
A celebration in honor of Absalom Jones (1746 – 1818), first African-American priest in the Episcopal Church, will be held on Sunday, Feb. 24, 3 – 5 p.m. at St. Philip’s Church, 2800 Stanford Avenue, Los Angeles 90011. The H. Belfield Hannibal Chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians and the Diocese of Los Angeles […]
June 7, 1937 – January 12, 2019 Sandy Smock passed away at home in hospice care on January 12, 2019, surrounded by his loving family. He was 81 years old. In 2013, he had been told he had six months to live. He managed to stretch this into six wonderful years with the help of […]
