The Bishop's Blog

O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son...

Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed...

From Apple Valley to Newport Beach this weekend, the people of God in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles bade an earthly farewell to gifted priests who leavened their gospel preaching and teaching...

O God, whose blessed Son came into the world that he might destroy the works of the devil and make us children of God and heirs of eternal life: Grant that, having this hope, we may purify ourselves...

People are fickle sometimes, yet other times the souls of constancy. Philippe the Original has been serving pretty much the same thing since 1908, when it claims to have invented the French dip...

I might’ve been looking too hard for orange Easter eggs in “Nuremberg,” but I don’t think so. Justifying the Nazis’ ruthless consolidation of political power, Hermann Göring (Hitler’s number two,...

For eight of the last nine years, this has been my view as presiding officer at our annual Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles convention. In 2020, we zoomed instead of roomed. So I led by laptop,...

Almighty God, by our faith in the Risen Christ, we give thanks that your spirit of grace and mercy and love and justice will be with all the people of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and...

Almighty and everliving God, source of all wisdom and understanding, be present with those who take counsel at the 130th annual meeting of convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, meeting...

Almighty God, we thank you for making the earth fruitful, so that it might produce what is needed for life: Bless those who work in the fields, that they might receive the gratitude and protection...

Heavenly God, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of our life we may not forget you,...

As wide as California, with all the diversity of a great nation, the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles also feels like family. On Sunday, our parishes in Thousand Oaks and Pacific Palisades were...