ADVISORY: June 27, 2018
The Episcopal News
Early Summer 2018

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IN THIS ISSUE:

From Bishop John Harvey Taylor:
For our celebration of Holy Eucharist at Messiah, Santa Ana on June 22, the morning of Orange County Pride, our liturgist, the Rev. Kay Sylvester, selected the passage from 1 Samuel about David going to war against the Philistines. In Sunday school in bygone days, it was the ultimate battle between good and evil. So as preacher, I was conscious of a dilemma. 


NEWS:

To address the “moral crisis of unaffordable housing” across Southern California, Bishop John Harvey Taylor on June 19 convened a 55-participant diocesan Task Force for Housing Justice, bringing together a diverse representation of developers, bankers, architects, government officals, non-profit representatives, and faith leaders united in achieving solutions for people without housing.

With the goal of strengthening interfaith cooperation in Southern California, the fourth annual Interdependence Day walking meditation around Echo Park Lake is planned for 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 1, with seven stations of brief prayers and meditations offered in the tradition of major world religions. All are welcome to participate and invited to assemble on the plaza of the Cathedral Center, 840 Echo Park Ave., Los Angeles.

Bishops of the six Episcopal dioceses in California — California, El Camino Real, Los Angeles, Northern California, San Diego and San Joaquin — co-signed a letter issued June 20 by Episcopal Public Policy Network of California calling for an end to the Trump administration’s policy of separating parents and children who enter the country seeking asylum.

Deputies from the dioceses of Los Angeles and California have written a resolution to General Convention calling for an end to the practice of separating immigrant children from their parents without due cause, and reiterating previous calls for comprehensive immigration reform.


FEATURES;

July 5 – 13 Southland Episcopalians will join an estimated 10,000 people — bishops, deputies, volunteers, media, guests, exhibitors, vendors, Episcopal Church Women and others — deep in the heart of Texas at the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Austin.

When Dennis Doherty found working from his West Los Angeles home too distracting and isolating, he went to coffee shops and even the local IHOP. Then he heard about The Divine Office (TDO) at St. Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica, California, a few miles away. It blends monastic-style spirituality and the secular phenomenon of creative coworking spaces. 

An Episcopal congregation that built a handsome English Gothic church and filled it with a notable series of stained-glass windows, nurtured the man who founded the World War II Navajo Code Talkers, harbored a Polish refugee family and endured for nearly a century without its own parking lot celebrated its final Eucharist on June 10 with sadness, but also with pride for its long history of ministry.

From Long Beach to Lompoc, Bishop Assisting Samuel Azariah baptizes and confirms Southland Episcopalians and playfully asks congregations for a show of hands if they’ve “ever seen a Pakistani bishop before.” The soft-spoken Azariah told The Episcopal News recently he likes to ask because “I look so different.”

Bishop’s Legate for Global Partnerships Troy Elder has spent the past four years building bridges on behalf of the Diocese of Los Angeles, advocating for unaccompanied minors, detainees, and comprehensive immigration reform. Now he is engaging that struggle on another front.