The Bishop’s Blog
Daily prayer: Open our eyes
O heavenly God, who has filled the world with beauty: Open our eyes to behold your gracious hand in all your works; that, rejoicing in your whole...
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...