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Singing “we shall overcome,” the Rev. Canon George Regas and more than a dozen other anti-war protestors were arrested Oct. 7 in front of the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles after rallying against the war in Afghanistan. The rally — to draw attention to the tenth anniversary of the war — drew a multi-ethnic […]
In a surprising rollercoaster of a day, 10 Muslim students –arrested for heckling the Israeli ambassador to the United States during a speech at the University of California’s Irvine campus last year — on Sept. 23 were convicted, sentenced and said they will appeal the guilty verdict. Gasps and muffled weeping filled the packed Southern […]
The lanterns from the OneLight celebration, distributed during a service of remembrance for those who died Sept. 11 and as a show of interfaith unity—continue to illuminate temples and churches in and around the Southland. One day after the Sept. 10 service that drew 1,500 people of faith to the steps of the Los Angeles […]
A standing-room-only interfaith crowd—young and old, male and female, gay and straight, politicians and priests, blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians — gathered at the Los Angeles city hall steps Sept. 10 to mark the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and to turn “the darkest day in American history” into a “OneLight” evening prayer service […]
October 6, 1925 – August 26, 2011 The Rev. James Furnas Bogardus, Jr., who was for many years an assistant priest at St. Andrew’s Church, Torrance, died on Aug. 26. He was 85. The Rev. Stephen Williams will preside at a memorial service at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13 at St. Gregory’s Church in […]
[The Episcopal News] The Rev. Michael Cooper was as surprised as anyone, including local authorities, when a stolen Rembrandt drawing turned up in his Encino church office two days after it went missing from a ritzy Marina del Rey hotel. It’s anybody’s guess how the 11-inch-by-6-inch quill-pen-and-ink drawing made the 20-mile trip from an Aug. […]
Episcopal Church officials are among the religious leaders joining Bread for the World and other organizations forming “The Circle of Protection,” a national nonpartisan movement committed to resisting cuts to the United States budget “that undermine the lives, dignity, and rights of poor and vulnerable people,” according to a July 20 press release from the organization. On […]
Bloy House students will be able to earn a joint master of divinity degree through the Episcopal Theological School at Claremont and the distributive learning program of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a new program, according to a recent statement released by the seminaries. The first student to participate in the joint […]
The life and ministry of the Rt. Rev. Robert Marshall Anderson, 77, was celebrated May 16 at the Cathedral Center of St. Paul before an overflow gathering of several hundred from across the six-county Los Angeles diocese. Anderson, who died May 3 in Minneapolis, was remembered as a great bishop, priest, mentor, and an ardent […]
Bishop Suffragan Diane Jardine Bruce on May 13 was formally awarded a doctor of ministry degree from Seabury Western Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. Her thesis investigated the development of alternative and emergent church liturgies and creative ministry expressions in the Diocese of Los Angeles. “I started this D.Min. five years ago this summer and completed […]
Dec. 18, 1933 – May 3, 2011 The Rt. Rev. Robert Marshall Anderson, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota from 1978 to 1993 and a former assisting bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles, died May 3 in Minneapolis of pancreatic cancer. He was 77. Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Mary Artemis […]
September 16, 1926 – April 1, 2011 A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at St. Margaret’s Church, Palm Desert, for Frank V. Marshall, Jr., who served the Diocese of Los Angeles as its treasurer and a five-time deputy to General Convention. Marshall died April 1 at age […]
