From The LA Times-
The people of St. Luke's Anglican Church have called their La Crescenta parish home for 85 years. Generations of families have grown up within its historic stone walls.
On Sunday, the Rev. Rob Holman will deliver his final sermon there, an epitaph to a bruising legal fight the congregation waged and lost to practice its conservative brand of Christian theology and hold on to the church.
On Monday, St. Luke's leaders will hand over its keys to the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.
The diocese sued to retain St. Luke's property after the congregation voted overwhelmingly in 2006 to leave it and the national Episcopal Church over theological differences, including the consecration of a gay bishop in New Hampshire.
After rounds of costly litigation, the courts ruled in the diocese's favor, concluding that St. Luke's property was held in trust for the diocese and the national church. Last week, a judge ordered St. Luke's congregation to leave by Monday.
For those who were baptized and married and have mourned within its walls, the impending departure is liberating and heart-wrenching at once.
More here-
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-stlukes10-2009oct10,0,6123571.story?track=rss
1 comment:
Looking forward to this sort "good stuff" in Pittsburgh eh? Warms your heart does it?
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