

Diocesan Council, clergy, lay leaders affirm best practices for fire disaster response
by Pat McCaughan | Jan 10, 2025
Underscoring pastoral support “in the midst of an existential crisis about the future of two whole communities,” Bishop John Harvey Taylor invited...

Outpouring of Episcopal support felt amid firestorms in Pacific Palisades, San Gabriel Valley foothills, Hollywood Hills
by Pat McCaughan | Jan 8, 2025
Relief contributions requested via diocesela.org/annual-appeal [The Episcopal News] – Locally and nationally, the Episcopal community has rallied...

Fires claim Altadena church, Palisades rectories, hundreds of homes; diocese rallies to serve evacuees
by Bob Williams | Jan 8, 2025
Relief contributions requested via diocesela.org/annual-appeal Among the 1,000-plus structures lost in still-raging Southland firestorms are homes...
St. Bede’s Church welcomes Neighborhood Youth Association’s college placement program to Mar Vista parish campus
by EN Staff | Dec 18, 2024
The hospitality of St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in L.A.’s Mar Vista community will help Neighborhood Youth Association (NYA) – a diocesan institution...

Support of immigrants, local ministries in focus at Diocesan Council’s Dec. 12 meeting
by Pat McCaughan | Dec 18, 2024
[The Episcopal News] – The reconstitution of Sacred Resistance, the diocesan task force to support immigrants and undocumented workers; empowerment...

Coadjutor Search Committee begins work; co-chairs note progress, next steps
by EN Staff | Dec 18, 2024
The Bishop Coadjutor Search Committee that will nominate candidates for election in 2025 as successor to Bishop Diocesan John Harvey Taylor upon his...

Orange County Sheriff presents interfaith community service award to Dot Leach
by Pat McCaughan | Dec 11, 2024
Dot Leach, chair of the diocesan Program Group on Ecumenical and Interreligious Life, is the recipient of the 2024 Sandra Hutchens Interfaith...

St. Stephen’s, Hollywood, receives Episcopal Church creation care grant for community nutrition project
by Mostyn Trudinger-Smith | Dec 11, 2024
St. Stephen's, Hollywood, is one of eight recipients of a recent creation care grant through The Episcopal Church’s Task Force on the Care of...

Interfaith immigration leaders stand in solidarity, discuss next steps at Dec. 8 forum
by Mostyn Trudinger-Smith | Dec 11, 2024
Immigration organizers, interfaith leaders, and others met Sunday, Dec. 8, to discuss immigration justice and strategies for the coming year, at a...
Visiting Bishops: Biographies
by Mostyn Trudinger-Smith | Dec 10, 2024
Bishop Brookhart C. Franklin Brookhart, Jr. retired in 2018 after 15 years as ninth bishop of the Diocese of Montana. He began visiting...