Los Angeles-area Episcopal churches provide showers, clothes and food to unhoused neighbors
[The Episcopal News] - Steve usually arrives about 6 a.m. on Saturdays at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Long Beach. He showers, changes into clean clothes, eats, and then helps others do likewise. At the end of what can be exhausting but satisfying long days — the...
Digital diocesan worship, LGBTQ Pride celebration call for prophetic action, justice, love of all
Dismantling racism, homophobia and trans-phobia is the work people of faith must engage, the Rt. Rev. Deon Johnson, newly consecrated Bishop of Missouri, told Southland Episcopalians during a Sunday, June 28 digital celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month. Johnson, whose...
How do churches do in-person worship safely in a time of COVID? They follow the rules — and improvise
Across the Southland, Episcopal church congregations, eager to safely return to in-person worship June 21, yet facing a series of restrictions, have opted to improvise. At St. Martin in-the-Fields Church in Twentynine Palms, for example, June 21 worshippers ranged in...
Supporting the diocesan Mission Share Fund means doing justice
The Rev. Mary Tororiey held up a “Peace of the Lord” sign during worship Sunday, June 21, in person and via Facebook Live at the Episcopal-Lutheran ministry in Barstow. Flipping it over, a masked Tororiey also flashed the customary response, “And also with you,” to 26...
Bishop William Thompson
1946 - 2020 The Rt. Rev. William A. Thompson, who from 2009 to 2014 was bishop of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) Diocese of Western Anglicans after more than 30 years as rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Long Beach, died June 21. He was 73 and in...
Mary Alice Robertson Jennings
March 13, 1933 - June 10, 2020 Mary Alice (Mar) Jennings, an honorary canon in the Diocese of Los Angeles and longtime lay leader at St. Matthew’s Church in Pacific Palisades, died June 10 in Santa Barbara surrounded by loved ones. She was 87 and had been in declining...
Diocesan Council: ‘co-visionaries’ of a restructured, more just and prophetic church
Bishop John Harvey Taylor, speaking at the June 11 digital meeting of Diocesan Council, invited Southland Episcopalians to become “co-visionaries” of a restructured, more just and prophetic church. Such restructuring would address the systemic inequities exposed by...
Gary Hall called as interim dean of Bloy House
The Very Rev. Canon Gary Hall, former dean of Washington National Cathedral and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, has been called as interim dean of Bloy House (The Episcopal Theological School at Claremont), effective Aug. 1. Bishop John Harvey Taylor announced...
Episcopal clergy join downtown L.A. rally to mourn George Floyd, demand reform
Protesters were gathered in downtown Los Angeles June 8 to mourn George Floyd, but the well-known details of his death under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer were magnified when men and women stepped up to microphones mounted on a red flatbed truck and told...
‘Today we mourn, tomorrow we fight’ – Southland Episcopalians join vigils, protests
From Ojai to Santa Clarita to Covina, Southland Episcopalians have joined the groundswell of protests and cries for justice following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Rev. Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton,...
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