The Bishop's Blog
Daily prayer: Rosa Parks
God of justice and love, on the 113th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks, who had been working and advocating for civil rights for 12 years in the Montgomery NAACP before choosing her...
Daily prayer: Louis Armstrong
O God, whom saints and angels delight to worship in heaven: Be ever present with your servants who seek through art and music to perfect the praises offered by your people on earth; and grant to...
Practical preaching on immigration policy
The prophetic voice is allowed to be practical. If Christian disciples want to help end the catastrophe that Trump is visiting on our country using the immigration issue, in addition to lifting up...
The Rev. Canon Warner Traynham
The Rev. Canon Warner Traynham’s first conscious memory is hearing legendary radio announcer Gabriel Heatter describing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's funeral train making its way from Warm...
AME’s Founders Day celebration
Former Rep. Stacey Abrams, author and voting rights advocate, brought the gospel imperative of saving democracy to the pulpit Sunday afternoon at First AME Church of Los Angeles, presenting her ten...
Daily prayer: Tuskegee airmen
Almighty and everliving God, we humbly pray that, as your only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple, so we may be presented to you with pure and clean hearts by Jesus Christ our Lord;...
Privilege and rage
It's a classic American story. Within hours of the deadly terrorist bombing of the Murrah federal building Oklahoma City in April 1994, a massive posse descended on three teenagers along a lonely...
Canon David Stuart Eisen, Esq.
At his and Geri’s Manhattan Beach home Jan. 23, it was my blessing to make David Stuart Eisen an honorary canon of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. His schedule did not permit him to accept in...
Alex Pretti and Renee God
"In Minneapolis yesterday, federal agents killed Alex Pretti, as they had already killed Renee Good, during their unjustifiable militarized assault on a peaceful city. "These innocents died because...
Visiting St. Mark’s, Van Nuys
Imagine the world’s 2.4 billion avowed Christians speaking as one, or our nation’s 200 million. We wouldn't have to agree on everything. Just that we insist that governments obey the divine law of...
Faith in love against cruelty
Ordained and consecrated as priests 22 years ago this morning at St. John's Cathedral in Los Angeles, five of us heard Bishop Chet Talton of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, reading from the...
Santo Niño Fiesta at St. John and Holy Child Church, Wilmington
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...