by Pat McCaughan | Mar 23, 2022 | Voices of Justice
[The Episcopal News] Ann Noble never dreamed her love for acting would lead her to Los Angeles County jails. Born and raised in Chicago, she moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to expand an already acclaimed career as actor, playwright, director, and theater company founder....
by Pat McCaughan | Aug 25, 2021 | Voices of Justice
[The Episcopal News] When doctors advised Mitsuye Yasutake Yamada in 1963 that she had only a year to live, the mother of four quickly got her affairs in order – most unconventionally. She got a job teaching English at Cypress College. She completed Camp Notes and...
by Pat McCaughan | Jun 16, 2021 | Voices of Justice
Arthur Littleworth’s amazing life has inspired both a film and a book, but the 98-year-old retired Riverside attorney and lifelong Episcopalian considers his extraordinary leadership simply to be what faith, civic responsibility and the times in which he lived and the...
by Pat McCaughan | May 19, 2021 | Voices of Justice
[The Episcopal News] After a pandemic-forced year’s hiatus, Deacon Sam Pillsbury returned to the Los Angeles Twin Towers Correctional Facility in March, heeding a strong call to let those he serves know, “they are not forgotten, that they are still cared for and count...
by Pat McCaughan | Mar 3, 2021 | Voices of Justice
Jane Stoever views her service as director of the domestic violence clinic at the University of California at Irvine as holistic and transformative – supporting and empowering abuse survivors, teaching the law students who seek justice for those clients in court, and...
by Pat McCaughan | Feb 10, 2021 | Voices of Justice
For the Rev. Dennis Gibbs and the Rev. Greta Ronningen, co-directors of Prism, the diocesan restorative justice ministry, serving “our friends inside” the jails of Los Angeles County and some other California prisons has taken on both a clarity and a sense of urgency...