Training course offers ‘first-aid’ strategies to help people facing mental challenges
[The Episcopal News] Just as CPR courses teach how to help someone experiencing a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training equips members of diocesan congregations to assist those facing mental health challenges. Those challenges now affect a growing number of people in the United...
Keep calm, and use the power you have for good, Bishop Taylor tells Jonathan Club breakfast gathering
[The Episcopal News] Everyone can make a difference in the world - they just have to choose to use...
LA’s Plaza de Cultura y Artes is venue for April 21 fiesta reception launching new Lydia Lopez Center
[The Episcopal News] All are invited to a Sunday-afternoon fiesta fundraiser set for 3 p.m. on...
Incarceration and mental health
Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to those who deprive the...
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As leadership changes, Seeds of Hope expands food justice ministry
[The Episcopal News] Steve Trapasso had just finished a food giveaway and cooking demonstration, turning fresh vegetables into nutritious cauliflower soup for residents of West Hollywood apartments, and was headed back to the Seeds of Hope storage hub. “Every Tuesday...
RIP: The Reverend Ellen Speyer Murasaki-Wekall
January 30, 1925 - March 4, 2024 The Rev. Ellen Speyer Murasaki-Wekall, Ph.D., priest of the Diocese of Los Angeles, and counselor and spiritual advisor to dozens of its clergy and lay leaders, died March 4. She was 99. Survivors include her son, Kiyoshi Murasaki;...
Seeking healing in the face of brokenness
Whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live. —Numbers 21:9 God did not send the son into the world to condemn the world… — John 3:17 There is a legend that says St. Patrick rounded up all the snakes in Ireland and drove...
Pilgrims from LA visit West African diocese for ‘mission, outreach, and solidarity’
[The Episcopal News] Nine travelers from the Diocese of Los Angeles and the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe’s American Cathedral in Paris recently returned from "Forced Migration in History,” an 11-day pilgrimage of study, travel, prayer and encounter in...
Lay down your anger; take up your cross
He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the...