At the Ugandan Community Church in Van Nuys, the Mothers Union is a pillar of extended church family. Founded in 1908 in British-colonized Uganda, at the UCC, part of the rich ministry of Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, Van Nuys, CA, the Mothers Union (together with...

Gracious God, amid the paradoxes and perplexities of leadership in an anxious age, as the bishops, deacons, and priests of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles gather this week for our annual clergy conference, comfort and inspire us with manifold signs of your...

O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire; through...

O God, your unfailing providence sustains the world we live in and the life we live: Watch over those, both night and day, who work while others sleep, and grant that we may never forget that our common life depends upon each other's toil; through Jesus Christ our...

Younger granddaughter Harriet’s fifth birthday week culminated this afternoon at a remarkable spot tucked away in Anaheim (the only one of its precise kind, the owners told me) where a horde of 30 children can exhaust themselves for an hour on slides and in a ball and...

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ...

Chaplains and others offering campus ministry around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles gathered Tuesday at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, early in a fateful week. When we began planning this summit early this year with diocesan coordinator the Rev. Dr. Glenn Libby,...

O Lord, who established your servant Athanasius, through wisdom, in your truth: Grant that we, perceiving the humanity and divinity of your Son Jesus Christ, may follow in his footsteps and ascend the way to eternal life, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy...