An Episcopal church in California has reopened three years after a local bishop tried to sell the property to a condo developer.
St. James the Great Episcopal Church of Newport Beach held their first worship service since 2015 on Sunday, with Bishop John H. Taylor of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles giving the homily.
“Our Easter work, as it always is, is to reclaim the unity, the sense of common purpose, the awe-struck buzzing in the chest over the fact that all things had been made new … and reinforce it and express it every Easter,” said Taylor.
“Look at what we could do if we were together in Christ. Doesn’t that beckon us to do better? In the Diocese of Los Angeles, reconciliation begins this Eastertide.”
In 2013, the Los Angeles Diocese won a property lawsuit against St. James Anglican, a 700-member…
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