Daily prayer: Arthur Ashe
Gracious God, we give you thanks for the life and witness of Arthur Ashe, who died on this day in 1993. The only man of African descent to win the singles titles at the U.S. Open, Wimbledon, and the Australian Open, he was also a civil rights and HIV-AIDS activist,...
Daily prayer: Trayvon Martin
Gracious God, Trayvon Martin, who would have turned 31 today, was nine when he saved the life of his father, Tracy, by dragging him from their burning apartment. You knew Trayvon's courage and his dreams of taking flight as a pilot. His killer thought he looked...
The Rev. Bryan Jones dies at 72; Feb. 16 celebration of life set for St. Luke’s, La Crescenta
The Rev. Bryan Jones, a longtime priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles, died Feb. 3, while hospitalized following a series of illnesses. He was 72 and retired. Survivors include his wife, the Rev. Amy Pringle, and his children -- Derek (Jessi), Sean, Jenni and Kate...
Q&A: Meet Taiwan priest Joseph Ho, now serving at St. Gabriel’s, Monterey Park
Under a clergy and student exchange program launched last year between the companion dioceses of Taiwan and Los Angeles, the Rev. Joseph Jui-en Ho, priest of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Keelung City, Taiwan, is now assisting for three months at St. Gabriel's...
Daily prayer: Rosa Parks
God of justice and love, on the 113th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks, who had been working and advocating for civil rights for 12 years in the Montgomery NAACP before choosing her transformative moment of resistance: Help all who feel overwhelmed by events to...
Daily prayer: Louis Armstrong
O God, whom saints and angels delight to worship in heaven: Be ever present with your servants who seek through art and music to perfect the praises offered by your people on earth; and grant to them even now glimpses of your beauty, and make them worthy at length to...
Practical preaching on immigration policy
The prophetic voice is allowed to be practical. If Christian disciples want to help end the catastrophe that Trump is visiting on our country using the immigration issue, in addition to lifting up love and protesting hate, we have to talk more about immigration...
The Rev. Canon Warner Traynham
The Rev. Canon Warner Traynham’s first conscious memory is hearing legendary radio announcer Gabriel Heatter describing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's funeral train making its way from Warm Springs, Georgia, where FDR died in April 1945, to Washington and then...
AME’s Founders Day celebration
Former Rep. Stacey Abrams, author and voting rights advocate, brought the gospel imperative of saving democracy to the pulpit Sunday afternoon at First AME Church of Los Angeles, presenting her ten steps for defeating authoritarianism (check them out here:...
Daily prayer: Tuskegee airmen
Almighty and everliving God, we humbly pray that, as your only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple, so we may be presented to you with pure and clean hearts by Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for...
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