The Bishop's Blog

Sometimes when I read the news, I’m tempted, just as Jesus was. I’m tempted by the rage clutching at my heart. So like Jesus, who matched the Tempter with the words of Deuteronomy, I go to...

Its sun-drenched campus beautifully maintained, its cheerful nave thoughtfully appointed, the parish hall, kitchen, and parking lot gleaming with coats of TLC, St. Joseph of Arimathea Episcopal...

This is the year of the horse. My annual practice as a non-expert is not to rely too much on academic or internet learning about the significance of these ancient traditions. But I have learned...

In this, its centenary year, St. George's Episcopal Church in Hawthorne offered its final Sunday service last week. When its devoted priest in charge and an energetic prophet of peace and justice,...

You and I and this parish are in a similar position. Bishops retire not when they want to retire but when they turn 72, as I will in late October. I don’t feel as though I have finished, but the...

“The students are watching us.” So said Ted Sizer, head of school, then called headmaster, at my high school, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. As an editor of the school weekly, I wrote a...

Almighty God, Abraham Lincoln reckoned your purposes to be just and perfect while struggling with the idea that you would ordain a terrible war to achieve them. We give you thanks for Lincoln’s...

Gracious God, the great orchestrator, we give you thanks for the pioneering artistry of Henry Lewis, born in Los Angeles in 1932, who, as a 16-year-old double bass virtuoso, joined the LA Phil and...

God of light, light hearts, and light feet, on the 80th anniversary of his birth, we remember our Valentine the late Gregory Hines, dancer, actor, singer, and choreographer, who began to tap his way...

Set us free, heavenly God, from every bond of prejudice and fear; that, honoring the steadfast courage of your servant Absalom Jones, we may show forth in our lives the reconciling love and true...

You wouldn’t think that that hotel housekeepers would be among the up to 100 million U.S. jobs that AI is expected to eliminate in the next 10 years. These jobs were supposed to be safe. We don’t...