Ruth Nicastro, retired communication missioner, dies at 90
by Bob Williams | Mar 30, 2016
Canon Ruth Nicastro, longtime diocesan missioner for communication and editor emerita of the Episcopal News, died March 28 while hospitalized in...
The Reverend Sione Halapua
by EN Staff | Mar 20, 2016
May 12, 1940 - February 29, 2016 The Rev. Sione Halapua, former rector of Church of the Ascension, Tujunga, died Feb. 29 in Chico, California. A...
Canon Peter Reed Mann
by Bob Williams | Mar 20, 2016
May 18, 1929 - March 15, 2016 Canon Peter Mann, a longtime treasurer of the diocese and its missioner for administration from 1983 to 1995, died...
The Reverend Alpha Gillett Bechtel
by Janet Kawamoto | Mar 14, 2016
March 23, 1921 - September 9, 2016 The Rev. A. Gillett Bechtel, retired rector of St. Francis' Church, San Bernardino, died Sept. 9. He was 95, and...
‘From the grassroots up,’ Stillpoint celebrates 30 years, new director
by Pat McCaughan | Mar 2, 2016
Stillpoint: The Center for Christian Spirituality began 30 years ago with a simple conversation among friends. And contemplative conversation has...
A half-century later, the struggle for racial justice continues
by Pat McCaughan | Mar 2, 2016
The names and faces in the struggle for racial justice may have changed in a half-century; the issues, not so much, Missouri Bishop Wayne Smith said...
NYA opens Watts campus, continues 100% college placement
by Pat McCaughan | Mar 2, 2016
Ten-year-old Simone “was thinking of something fluffy” and so, with sensors, circuit boards, light bulbs, and an ordinary cardboard box, she created...
Final service set for East Whittier congregation
by EN Staff | Mar 2, 2016
Changes are unfolding in Episcopal Church ministry along the north Orange County - L.A. County border in the neighboring communities of East...
Episcopal Community Federal Credit Union: a resource for diocese and community
by EN Staff | Feb 17, 2016
It’s been in business since 1993, but most Episcopalians of the Diocese of Los Angeles don’t realize that the Echo Park-based Episcopal Community...
John Hamilton “Jack” Plimpton
by EN Staff | Feb 15, 2016
1931 - 2016 Canon Jack Plimpton, longtime executive director of diocesan HIV/AIDS ministries, died on Friday, Feb. 12, in Los Angeles after entering...