The Bishop's Blog

I experienced the authority of Christian unity Sunday — denominations worshiping together against the backdrop of the Philippines’ colonial history, and the body of Christ as a scandal against...

The Christian disciple prays to be an instrument of God's peace. Dr. King knew how hard that could be. “I don't care who you are, I don't care where you live, there is a civil war going on in your...

The Holy Spirit did her healing, rousing work all over the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles today, and especially in Beverly Hills and Placentia. All Saints' Beverly Hills bid au revoir to its...

Fr. Vazken Movsesian, an innovative priest in the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church, who dropped by this morning for coffee and conversation at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, received his...

Last week was the first anniversary of the Eaton and Palisades fires — the events themselves, and the commencement of grueling seasons of recovery and healing. I was along Sunday morning with the...

After he and his mission team visited St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church in Monterey Park last summer, the bishop of Taiwan, the Rt. Rev. Lennon Yuan-rung Chang, generously offered to continue our...

My album from today's ordination and consecration as a priest of the Rev. Payton Walker Høegh. During a festive service at St. John's Cathedral, the three-legged stool of Payton's emotional and...

Renee Nicole Good walks among the stars with Viola Liuzzo, the civil rights worker from Detroit whom the KKK murdered in 1965 during the march on Selma. As a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, my...

I spent Wednesday morning with victims of the Eaton fire at Altadena who, according to the mere measure of their years, occupy the ends of the spectrum. But they have in common, by virtue of their...

Many remember a beautiful sky last year on Tuesday morning, Jan. 7. Just after eleven, Kathy took this picture of wind-whipped clouds over the snowy San Gabriels. But then, like the temple curtain...

I call them miracle pairs — the universe's warp and woof, the very hand of the great weaver, suddenly revealed when disparate things fit together like puzzle pieces. You think of someone, and a...

The United States government has declared war on the golden rule. Faith traditions have agreed for millennia that we should act toward others as we wish them to act toward us. It bolsters all...