The Bishop's Blog

Next time you’re driving, notice how many cars have dents and dings. I didn’t until recently, after Kathy and I fell victim to highway slobbery. We were minding our own business at a red light on...

Almighty God, guide the nations of the world into the way of justice and truth, and establish among them that peace which is the fruit of righteousness, that they may become the kingdom of the Lord...

Almighty and everlasting God, you made the universe with all its marvelous order, its atoms, worlds, and galaxies, and the infinite complexity of living creatures: Grant that, as we probe the...

O God, you made us in your own image and redeemed us through Jesus your Son: Look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down...

I had a rich weekend of ministry in the Inland Empire, perhaps the largest swath of the vast Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. Our congregations in Riverside and San Bernardino counties are redolent...

Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping those who serve in our armed forces at home and abroad. As we remember this Memorial Day all those who sacrificed themselves for our...

O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may...

O God, who sent your son Jesus Christ to preach peace to those who are far off and to those who are near: Grant that we, like your servant Jackson Kemper, may proclaim the Gospel in our own day,...

Because she doesn’t ever give up on the people she loves, Leslie Knope, the small-town bureaucrat from “Parks and Recreation,” performed by series producer Amy Poehler, is now, for me, the Platonic...

The annual meeting of the Episcopal Community Federal Credit Union, which took place Tuesday evening at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, always feels like a family picnic, right down to the tasty...

Most Merciful God, who blessed your servant Helena with such grace and devotion to you that she venerated the very footsteps of our Savior; Grant unto us the same grace that, aided by her prayers...

When he was five, the Rev. Canon Paul D Edwards, now 93, looked at a tree and saw that it was alive with light and life. He picked up a branch, and it shone like the sun. When he came to Christ as a...