The Bishop's Blog

“Be the light.” That’s the Taiwan mission team’s mission statement. When Bishop Chang, our colleagues, and I began planning our formal partnership and reciprocal visits, the light kept shining on...

O God, who on the holy mount revealed to chosen witnesses your well-beloved Son, wonderfully transfigured, in raiment white and glistening: Mercifully grant that we, being delivered from the...

Last September, Fennie, Katherine, Thomas, and I visited a church called Saint Thomas’s in Chungli, near the Taipei airport. It started as a mission just 14 years ago and became a parish in April....

Jackson Browne expressed my inmost yearning 42 years ago in a song called “The Road and the Sky." It's by far his best rocker, a perfect driving song, turbocharged by the late David Lindley's slide...

Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our...

Almighty and most merciful God, we remember before you all poor and neglected persons whom it would be easy for us to forget: the homeless and the destitute, the old and the sick, those victimized...

It’s not easy telling visitors from abroad about things we're not proud of. But Bishop Lennon and Hannah Chang and their 13 fellow missionaries from the Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan didn't come for...

Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties, may be duly...

Almighty and most merciful God, grant that by the indwelling of your Holy Spirit we may be enlightened and strengthened for your service; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with...

Almighty God, in giving us dominion over things on earth, you made us fellow workers in your creation: Give us wisdom and reverence so to use the resources of nature, that no one may suffer from our...

When Bishop Lennon Yuan-rung Chang of Taiwan and I began discussing our exchange of visits, the emphasis was always on the word exchange. We're interested in exchanges of youth, summer campers,...

Let your continual mercy, O Lord, kindle in your Church the never-failing gift of love; that, following the example of your servant William Wilberforce, we may have grace to defend the poor, and...