The Bishop's Blog

In the Christian calendar, Lent and Advent are our penitential seasons. Looking ahead to Eastertide and Christmastide, we set aside a Sunday in each for seeing the world through rose-color glasses...

On behalf of executive director Eileen Spencer and her board and staff colleagues at the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, welcome to a reception that was to have been in honor...

The last time the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin ordained and consecrated a bishop its people had elected, it was 1988, and Ronald Reagan was president. It has taken that long for this hearty...

Good morning, Breakfast Clubbers! I believe that’s the fifth time I’ve had the privilege of offering that immortal greeting. I was here twice to talk about Kathy’s and my old boss, President Nixon,...

Bishops experienced in the ministry and art of retirement, of gracious leave-taking unfolding across weeks and months, have told me about the poignancy of last visits to congregations. In a diocese...

The Holy Spirit was lively indeed on Saturday in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles as we bade farewell to a legendary, Spirit-driven priest and then surrounded an ailing colleague in the...

In the joyous spirit of Eastertide reconciliation, 50 members of Lutheran and Episcopal congregations in Seal Beach had church and fellowship on Wednesday with one another and three bishops — David...

“Respectable songs for responsible people” were the stock in trade of Flanders and Swann, practitioners of English light music most famous for their live albums “At the Drop of a Hat" (1957) and “At...

Most of the time in church, we hear the words of Jesus Christ and his great apostle St. Paul – Jesus, of course, the subject of the gospels, Paul the traveling evangelist and epistle writer who...

The most important service of the church year, the Great Vigil of Easter opens with an invocation of the Paschal miracle and scripture readings and prayers retelling the great story, beginning with...

On behalf of all of us at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, I extend greetings and blessings as we prepare ourselves for the 50 days of Eastertide. This year, please join me in thinking of Easter Day...

My scrapbook from today’s chrism mass at St. John's Cathedral, a Holy Tuesday tradition throughout Christendom. Bishop-elect Antonio Jose Gallardo Lucena celebrated Holy Eucharist. I preached and...