Marking the Jan. 18 opening of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Bishop John Harvey Taylor of the Diocese of Los Angeles, Archbishop Jose Gomez of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and Bishop R. Guy Erwin of the Southwest California Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have renewed a covenant on baptism and cooperative ministries that was inaugurated 25 years ago, on Nov. 21, 1993, by their three predecessors.
Adapted from a report by Bob Williams for The Episcopal News Update in Los Angeles
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
