The Bishop’s Blog
Berta and Luis
“Pero es solo un niño.” He’s just a child. That was what Berta said right before she stepped into the path of a bullet — right before she threw her...
Daily prayer: Argula von Grumbach
Almighty God, who gave your servant Argula von Grumbach a spirit of wisdom and power to love your Word and to boldly draw others to its truth: Pour...
Visiting Grace Episcopal Church, Moreno Valley
Valerie Maxwell, for these five years the bishop’s warden of Grace Episcopal Church in Moreno Valley, and I stood bathed in Inland Empire sunshine...
Good Samaritan
“Good Samaritan” falls from the tongue so easily that we forget that, in Jesus’s time, Samaritans were considered heretics. They didn’t worship at...
Daily prayer: To faithfully understand and accomplish
O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do,...