The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Time for refreshment and peace
O God, in the course of this busy life, give us times of refreshment and peace; and grant that we may so use our leisure to rebuild our body and...

Why aren’t you weeping?
Mark’s gospel says that when Jesus came up out of the waters of the Jordan River, the heavens were torn apart. When we say the skies crack open, we...

Daily prayer: Pachomius
Set us free, O God, from all false desires, vain ambitions, and everything that would separate us from your love; that, like your servant Pachomius,...

Clergy Conference Scrapbook 2
My scrapbook from the second two days of our wonderful Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles clergy conference

Daily prayer: To contend tirelessly for justice
Loving God, we bless your Name for Frances Perkins, who in faithfulness to her baptism envisioned a society in which all might live in health and...