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Responding to Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s call to “Follow the Way of Jesus,” deputies and bishops at the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, meeting July 5 – 13 in Austin, Texas, acted on a record number of resolutions on key issues such as immigration, prayer book revision, Israel-Palestine, and readmitting the Episcopal Church of Cuba […]
June 29, 1928 – July 17, 2018 The Rev. Canon Shirley Rose, former assistant at St. Matthias’ Episcopal Church in Whittier, educator, and past chair of the Program Group on Christian Education and Leadership Training, died July 17. She was 90. A service will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 2 at St. […]
By Janet Kawamoto July 05, 2018 The Episcopal News issued daily reports from the 79th meeting of the Episcopal Church’s triennial General Convention, which met in Austin, Texas, July 5 – 13. Click on the following links to read the reports. Day 1: July 5 Day 2: July 6 Day 3: July 7 Day 4: […]
June 27, 2018 By John Harvey Taylor For our celebration of Holy Eucharist at Messiah, Santa Ana on June 22, the morning of Orange County Pride, our liturgist, the Rev. Kay Sylvester, selected the passage from 1 Samuel about David going to war against the Philistines. In Sunday school in bygone days, it was the […]
When Dennis Doherty found working from his West Los Angeles home too distracting and isolating, he went to coffee shops and even the local IHOP. Then he heard about The Divine Office (TDO) at St. Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica, California, a few miles away. It blends monastic-style spirituality and the secular phenomenon […]
Bishops of the six Episcopal dioceses in California — California, El Camino Real, Los Angeles, Northern California, San Diego and San Joaquin — co-signed a letter issued June 20 by Episcopal Public Policy Network of California calling for an end to the Trump administration’s policy of separating parents and children who enter the country seeking […]
Bishop’s Legate for Global Partnerships Troy Elder has spent the past four years building bridges on behalf of the Diocese of Los Angeles, advocating for unaccompanied minors, detainees, and comprehensive immigration reform. Now he is engaging that struggle on another front. The human rights attorney concluded his diocesan staff ministry several weeks ago and has […]
Deputies from the dioceses of Los Angeles and California have written a resolution to General Convention calling for an end to the practice of separating immigrant children from their parents without due cause, and reiterating previous calls for comprehensive immigration reform. The Rev. Canon Susan Russell submitted the resolution, endorsed by Deputies Sarah Lawton of […]
An Episcopal congregation that built a handsome English Gothic church and filled it with a notable series of stained-glass windows, nurtured the man who founded the World War II Navajo Code Talkers, harbored a Polish refugee family and endured for nearly a century without its own parking lot celebrated its final Eucharist on June 10 […]
From Long Beach to Lompoc, Bishop Assisting Samuel Azariah baptizes and confirms Southland Episcopalians and playfully asks congregations for a show of hands if they’ve “ever seen a Pakistani bishop before.” The soft-spoken Azariah told The Episcopal News recently he likes to ask because “I look so different. Everybody’s interested in looking at me and […]
For our celebration of Holy Eucharist at Messiah, Santa Ana on June 22, the morning of Orange County Pride, our liturgist, the Rev. Kay Sylvester, selected the passage from 1 Samuel about David going to war against the Philistines. In Sunday school in bygone days, it was the ultimate battle between good and evil. So […]
July 5 – 13 Southland Episcopalians will join an estimated 10,000 people — bishops, deputies, volunteers, media, guests, exhibitors, vendors, Episcopal Church Women and others — deep in the heart of Texas at the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Austin. Along with counterparts from 108 other Episcopal Church dioceses in 16 countries, bishops and […]
