The Bishop's Blog
Daily prayer: Elizabeth of Hungary
Almighty God, by your grace your servant Elizabeth of Hungary recognized and honored Jesus in the poor of this world: Grant that we, following her example, may with love and gladness serve those in...
Daily prayer: Hilda of Whitby
O God of peace, by whose grace the abbess Hilda was endowed with gifts of justice, prudence, and strength to rule as a wise mother over the nuns and monks of her household: Raise up these gifts in...
Synergies in San Bernardino
The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has two venerable churches in San Bernardino, St. John's Episcopal Church, which is downtown, and St. Francis Episcopal Church, in a suburban neighborhood right...
Daily prayer: Divine life
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...
Visiting St. Cross, Hermosa Beach
St. Cross Episcopal Church in Hermosa Beach makes a special point of service to the wider Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles community. Its rector of 15 years, the Rev. Dr. Rachel Nyback, is a fabled...
Daily prayer: To embrace scripture
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...
The Rev. John Limo and the Rev. Ellen Hill, celebrations of life
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...
Daily prayer: To purify ourselves
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...
Philippe the Original on Veteran’s Day
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...
Nuremberg
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,...
Presiding at Diocesan Convention
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,...
Daily prayer: The Rev. Antonio Gallardo
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...