You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Parry Popejoy and Sean Wagener, partners for 26 years and members of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Corona Del Mar; in a ceremony at the hospital, where Parry is recovering from a health setback, the Rev. Shane Scott-Hamblen, their rector, presented them for confirmation, and I presided as the Holy Spirit did her thing; Parry’s son Nick was also present… Andy Guilford of St John Chrysostom Church in Rancho Santa Margarita with Mostyn Trudinger-Smith, editor of “The Episcopal News”…with the Rev. Dr. Jo Ann Jaen Lagman, the Rev. Canon Aidan Koh, and Rt. Rev. Janghwan Kim, bishop of Seoul, at a recent Korean ministry convocation at St. Paul’s Commons, Echo Park…with Jon Achee, a postulant for holy orders, UCLA professor Jason Sexton, an expert in prison reform and the nexus of faith and the battle against climate change, and Canon Andy Tomat, the hardest working volunteer diocesan treasurer in The Episcopal Church…the Rev. Dr. Ryan Newman and the Rev. Canon Melissa McCarthy, preaching and presiding at recent Thursday midday Holy Eucharist services at St. Paul’s Commons…and with Canon Bob Williams and ecumenical and interfaith partners, including from Nefesh, the Immaculate Heart Community, and NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change.
