The Bishop’s Blog
On the road: Black Bear Diner
I’ve been from Tucson to Tucumcari, Tehachapi to Tonopah (name that song). But since my last visit to the truck stop in Tonopah, an hour out of...
On the road: Eusabio and the Hoover Dam
In Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop,” published in 1927, Bishop Latour, patterned after the real-life first bishop of Santa Fe in the...
Daily prayer: Six days on the road
Patient God, when in our daily lives we are tempted by shortcuts, help us remember that we will always experience more of your glorious creation...
Daily prayer: The desert sky
“The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still — and there was so much sky, more than at sea, more than...
On the road: Santa Fe, Willa Cather, and a real/fictional archbishop
As I arrived in Santa Fe the other evening, Archbishop Jean Marie Latour was on his deathbed — on books on tape, that is. Thanks to a gloriously apt...