The Bishop's Blog

Give ear to our prayers, O Lord, and direct the way of your servants in safety under your protection, that, amid all the changes of our earthly pilgrimage, we may be guarded by your mighty aid;...

My last scrapbook from the House of Bishops meeting at Camp McDowell, Alabama. This includes women bishops and bearded bishops. There was a judge’s ruling against a photo of bald bishops.

“We have to say something.” I heard this a few times in the early days the week-long spring meeting of the House of Bishops at Camp McDowell, outside Birmingham, Alabama, which ended Monday. Of...

Look upon the heart-felt desires of your humble servants, Almighty God, and stretch forth the right hand of your majesty to be our defense against all our enemies; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who...

Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may...

Grant, most merciful Lord, to your faithful people pardon and peace, that they may be cleansed from all their sins, and serve you with a quiet mind; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and...

Grant, O Lord, that as your Son Jesus Christ prayed for his enemies on the cross, so we may have grace to forgive those who wrongfully or scornfully use us, that we ourselves may be able to receive...

O Lord, strong and mighty, Lord of hosts and King of glory: Cleanse our hearts from sin, keep our hands pure, and turn our minds from what is passing away; so that at the last we may stand in your...

I never saw my divorced father’s last house. It was an apartment in a hotel in downtown Detroit where he lived alone. Neighbors discovered Harvey's body in 1975, when his smoking and drinking caught...

O God, who from the family of your servant David raised up Joseph to be the guardian of your incarnate Son and the spouse of his virgin mother: Give us grace to imitate his uprightness of life and...

I almost knew how Mayor Bass must’ve felt, being out of the country during the wildfires. I’d planned to spend the first week of January in Jerusalem with fellow bishops but decided not to go...

O God, you willed to redeem us from all iniquity by your Son: Deliver us when we are tempted to regard sin without abhorrence, and let the virtue of his passion come between us and our mortal enemy;...