The Bishop's Blog
Visiting St. Clement of Rome, Huntington Park
The Holy Spirit keeps bringing me back to Huntington Park and lively, welcoming St. Clement of Rome Episcopal Church. Bishops’ visitations here feature dozens of confirmation candidates, sometimes...
CSU Long Beach powwow
Arlie Neskah, a member of the Diné-Navajo nation, is a musician, composer, and artist who is serving as MC at this weekend’s 53rd annual powwow at California State University, Long Beach. He kept it...
Prayers for Bishop Gretchen Rehberg
Encouraging news, as of 7:38 p.m. today, from The Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane about the Rt. Rev. Gretchen M Rehberg, whose long-awaited double lung transplant surgery began...
A Multi-Faith Response to Our Current Constitutional Crisis
We’re gathered in the memory and spirit of activist and organizer Umar Hakim-Dey. I was in a small group with Umar once. He wanted to begin with what we agreed on already. Let’s follow his example....
Rev. Andrew Rutledge celebration of new ministry
A native of West Virginia, the Rev. Andrew Rutledge was working as a charge nurse at UCLA when, nearly 20 years ago, he visited the beautiful community of Los Olivos and fell in love with St. Mark's...
Amazing People
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Bishop-elect Antonio Gallardo L., at the latest of our periodic lunches in Pico Rivera at Norm’s; it never...
Desert Journeys Lenten quiet day
During our Lenten quiet day on Wednesday at the Desert Journeys Retreat Center in Twentynine Palms, I was in the library, reading Elizabeth Day’s saucy new novel about British politics. Outside I...
Heresy in The Pentagon
The Pentagon is a hotbed of heresy. This week Hegseth ridiculed rules of engagement that govern the military’s use of deadly force. Operatically a Christian, he desecrates our Lord’s gospel by...
Gustavo Dudamel
Once more I took my weakening ears into the breach, that oasis of glorious sound, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, to see Gustavo Dudamel conduct the LA Phil before he decamps to New York at the end of...
Hearing the Echoes
Our youngest grandchild, Emmett, who is seven months old, lives in New York. He and his parents, Dan and Michelle, came to visit Kathy and me last week, and for the whole wonderful week. You know...
Holy Trinity Saint Benedict Episcopal Church, Alhambra, and the Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers
My Sunday was full of church present and church future — visiting a thriving parish that goes against the grain of narratives of decline, then spending the afternoon with our denomination’s foremost...
Overcoming temptation to rage with the Golden Rule
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...