Assisting Priest
626.583.2741 | Sabbath Day: Friday
srussell@allsaints-pas.org

Virtual Office Hours: by appointment
(Contact Susan at the email above to arrange an in-person or virtual office hour appointment)

A life-long Episcopalian, Susan is a member of our clergy staff. In addition to being part of our worship and pastoral care team, oversees the process of those discerning a call to ordained ministry and serves as our liaison for things diocesan and national church. As Canon for Engagement Across Difference she also serves as member of the Bishop’s staff here in the Diocese of Los Angeles.

Active in LGBTQ and women’s issues, Susan served as president of Integrity USA (2003-2009), continues to serve as convener of “Claiming the Blessing” and as a member of the leadership team of the TEC LGBTQ Caucus. A founding member of the HRC (Human Rights Campaign) Religion Council, she has also served on the National Clergy Advisory Board for Planned Parenthood, as a member of the Task Force for the Study of Marriage for the Episcopal Church and as co-chair of the Episcopal Church’s Task Force for Communion Across Difference (2018-2022.)

A Los Angeles native she came to All Saints Church in August 2002. Her family includes her wife, Lori, two sons and two stepdaughters, three dogs and and two cats. She is an ENFJ, a second soprano and a second-generation Los Angeles Dodger fan — and loving being grandma to three adorable grandsons — Hayes Anthony, Levi Atticus & Charlie Wyatt. (Ask her for pictures!)

Her favorite blessing is one she “inherited” from the former Bishop of Newark, John Shelby Spong:

Holy God,
Send us anywhere you would have us go,
only go there with us.
Place upon us any burden you desire,
only stand by us to sustain us.
Break any tie that binds us,
except the tie that binds us to you.
And the blessing of God Almighty,
Creating, Redeeming and Sustaining, be with you —
those you love, serve and challenge —
this day and forever.
Amen.