Exploring the Four Orders of Ministry
Exploring the Four Orders of Ministry There are many gifts but one Spirit, and in the Episcopal Church there are many ministries and four orders: lay persons, bishops, priests, and deacons. Visit the EDLA website for a video presentation exploring those four orders of ministry – their similarities and their differences. The fourteen-minute presentation includes…
Home for the Holidays: A Rabbi’s Christmas Eve Reflection
“This is what it means to be in beloved community. To build when it feels all around you, everything is crumbling. To give attention, when everything inside wants you to look away. And do you know what happens when you meet fear with community– the isolation part of things fades away. And that makes it…
Choosing Love in a Time of War
On Sunday, October 29, 2023 All Saints Church in Pasadena will host “NewGround: Living into a Muslim-Jewish Partnership of Love in a Time of Deep Pain and War” — a timely and transformative offering in the All Saints Forum with Aziza Hasan and Andrea Hodos in conversation with Mike Kinman. On October 22nd The New York Times published an…
No Mere Mortals
“You have never talked to a mere mortal … your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.” — C. S. Lewis Your neighbor. All your neighbors. The ones you like and the ones you don’t. The ones you agree with and the ones you are convinced are as wrong as they think you…
Commemorating The Philadelphia Eleven
The Episcopal Church will mark the forty-ninth anniversary of the stained-glass ceiling shattering ordinations of the Philadelphia Eleven — the first women ordained to the priesthood — on July 29, 2023. In preparation for that anniversary, the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, along with the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music and others, is offering suggested resources…
From Swords to Plowshares: Addressing White Christian Nationalism
A Sunday afternoon forum focused on countering White Christian nationalism is set for 2 – 4 p.m. on July 9 at St. Paul’s Commons, Echo Park, hosted by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles Program Group on Ecumenical and Interfaith Life. All are welcome; advance registration is requested here. The program – titled “From Swords to…
Tuesday in Holy Week: Faith, Not Fear
This will be the most “normal” Holy Week we’ve had since 2019 and that’s something for which I am very grateful. It is also a Holy Week many of us are entering feeling worn out. I keep trying to figure out what the fatigue is about. We have come so far since 2020. Things have…
Monday In Holy Week: The Non-Binary Way of the Cross
Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,…
A Prayer for Healing
We carry many wounds, seen and unseen. Scars of past losses and hurts, released pain and held brokenness. Yet you, O Divine Creator, Bind our wounds, heal our hurts, and soothe our pain. You do not fish us out of our humanity you dwell with us in love. Help us to know that in the…
Love Is The Way: Looking Ahead to Lent
Looking Ahead to Lent: Love is the Way As we look ahead to the season of Lent and its call to prayer, study and reflection, a reminder that the Engagement Across Difference ministry in the Diocese of Los Angeles offers Love Is The Way — a five-part Lenten study guide of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s best seller.…
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