The Bishop's Blog

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 an hotel in downtown Detroit where he lived alone. Neighbors discovered Harvey's body in 1975, when his smoking and drinking...

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;...

Let your Spirit, O Lord, come into the midst of us to wash us with the pure water of repentance, and prepare us to be always a living sacrifice to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and...

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including the people of Saint Mark's Episcopal Church in Altadena, now worshiping of a Sunday at St. Barnabas Eagle Rock...

O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the...

O God, by your Word you marvelously carry out the work of reconciliation: Grant that in our Lenten fast we may be devoted to you with all our hearts, and united with one another in prayer and holy...

Lord Christ, our eternal Redeemer, grant us such fellowship in your sufferings, that, filled with your Holy Spirit, we may subdue the flesh to the spirit, and the spirit to you, and at the last...

Strengthen us, O Lord, by your grace, that in your might we may overcome all spiritual enemies, and with pure hearts serve you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the...

In this beautiful audience of housing justice prophets sits a born and bred son of New York City, the former Episcopal bishop of Northern Indiana, but forever a child of this diocese and region, my...