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June 1, 1938 – June 18, 2018 The Rev. Elizabeth Stingley, retired vicar of St. Hilary’s Church, Hesperia, died June 18 in Texas, where she had been living with her daughter. She was 80. Service details are pending; interment will be at Arlington National Cemetery with her husband Patrick Stingley, a career Marine officer who […]
By EN staff June 20, 2018 Bishop Diane Jardine Bruce and Bishop John H. Taylor lead a discussion on ways to solve the housing crisis in Los Angeles with some 40 church and community leaders. Photo / Janet Kawamoto To address the “moral crisis of unaffordable housing” across Southern California, Bishop John H. Taylor on […]
December 9, 1937 – June 10, 2018 The Rev. Canon Richard Alden Wagner, former vicar of St. Alban’s Church, Yucaipa, and a longtime member of Diocesan Council, died June 10 at the age of 80. A service will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 23 at Trinity Church, 419 S. 4th Street, Redlands […]
October 23, 1948 – May 8, 2018 The Rev. Mitties McDonald DeChamplain, professor at General Theological Seminary, New York; former professor at Fuller Seminary, Pasadena; and former associate priest of St. Athanasius Church at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul, Los Angeles, died May 8 in New York City. A service will be held Saturday, […]
Early in the first round of our diocesan reconciliation process, which got underway in mid-April by introducing or reintroducing us to systems theory, Richard Blackburn of the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center asked a clarifying question: “How many times during this conflict [over St. James, Newport Beach] did you say to yourself, ‘What a great opportunity […]
Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce represented the Diocese of Los Angeles and The Episcopal Church at the ordination and installation of the Rev. Nestor Dagas Poltic as third bishop of the Diocese of North Central Philippines on May 1 at the Cathedral of the Resurrection in Magsaysay, Baguio City. Bruce, who was a co-consecrator and […]
During her seven years as St. James Episcopal School headmaster, Debbi David has consistently beefed up campus security — adding four full-time guards, cameras, special doors and panic bar gates, ‘active shooter’ and other emergency drills, and even air horns in classrooms for teachers to signal loudly if accosted by anyone. Now, in the wake […]
The diocese raised nearly $76,000 for disaster relief; most of it aided the poor, homeless and undocumented s fires raged through Southern California at the end of 2017, Episcopal congregations in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties — some of them narrowly escaping damage from the flames — immediately went into action to help their neighbors […]
March 24 was the first time 16-year-old Ireland La Munyon had ever demonstrated at a protest rally. She felt called to activism because “I believe I shouldn’t be afraid when I go to school.” The Etiwanda High School sophomore said she protested because of the 17 who died and 14 who were injured in the […]
Episcopal Enterprise, an organization of people interested in exploring new models of sustainability for congregations of the diocese, launched a series of Social Enterprise workshops at the Cathedral Center in Echo Park on May 9 with “Assessing Your Social Enterprise Options: Identifying Assets, Opportunities and Resistance Factors.” The group’s purpose is to help congregations find […]
March 12, 1918 – April 7, 2018 The Rev. Canon Samuel Robert D’Amico, retired rector of St. James Church, Los Angeles, and founder of its parish school, died April 7 at age 100. A requiem Eucharist will be celebrated by Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce on Saturday, April 14 at 9 a.m. at St. George’s […]
Andrew Tomat, an accomplished corporate development executive with a 25-year track record of growing Fortune 500 companies, has accepted Bishop John Harvey Taylor’s appointment to serve as treasurer of the Diocese of Los Angeles. A member of Church of the Epiphany in Oak Park, Tomat brings considerable experience through his firm Four Pillars, named for […]
