Diocese receives $1.2 million Lilly Endowment grant to fund children’s worship initiative
The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has received a $1.2 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to fund its new “Immersed in Worship: Welcoming Children into Intergenerational Worship” initiative. The program, developed and headed by Missy Morain, missioner for Christian formation for children...
Standing Committee opens applications for Bishop Coadjutor Search Committee; Oct. 18 deadline set
[The Episcopal News] Emphasizing culturally and geographically diverse representation, the...
Second ‘Losing Truth’ seminar explores role of media, viewing habits in rise of disinformation
[The Episcopal News] Deliberate misinformation and lies “continue to put at risk the lives of...
Students come for food, stay for fellowship at UC Irvine ‘Community Table’
[The Episcopal News] Community Table at UC Irvine offers food, fellowship, fun, along with...
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Post-pandemic, Laundry Love resumes monthly service in Echo Park
[The Episcopal News] Laundry Love Echo Park, a monthly program that offers those in need an opportunity to do laundry free of charge, had its official re-launch on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at Luxe Laundries on Alvarado Street. Laundry Love is a national organization, and...
Refugees from many countries mingle at IRIS’s ‘Welcome Week’
Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Services (IRIS), a ministry of the diocese focused on resettlement, opened its doors Sept. 19 to welcome about 60 guests for a "Welcome Week" event, inspired by June's World Refugee Day Celebration and organized by Hilda Sarkisians,...
Episcopalians join other volunteers in Echo Park for World Cleanup Day
[The Episcopal News] About 90 volunteers, including members of St. Athanasius Episcopal Church, gathered on Saturday, Sept. 21 at El Centro Del Pueblo in Echo Park (Los Angeles) for the neighborhood's World Cleanup Day event. Volunteers were divided into groups,...
Ministry, art, architecture and community come together in Detroit at film festival directed by Hermosa Beach priest Josh Paget
[The Episcopal News] For the Rev. Josh Paget, an associate rector at St. Cross Church in Hermosa Beach in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, hosting a film festival in Detroit seemed natural, given the kindred spirits of the city and Paget's Better Cities Film...
Vet your sources, pop your news bubble, support good local journalism, panelists tell participants in first ‘Losing Truth’ online forum
[The Episcopal News] Bishop John Harvey Taylor opened “Losing Truth: The Critical Cost to Our Lives and Future,” the Sept. 15 online forum, with his confession of how easily he, even as a former journalist and sophisticated news reader, recently was misled by...