The Bishop's Blog

As 14-year-old pianist Qien Joseph Hu performed Saturday evening at St. John's Cathedral, I didn’t recognize the piece. As it turned out, almost no one did, except perhaps his pastor mother,...

Holy one, the violence this weekend was too much to bear, preying on the innocent at a temple of learning at Brown, on a beach in Australia as our siblings in faith celebrated the miracle of...

Remember the Maine and the Gulf of Tonkin. Please. Fish stories about attacks on U.S. naval vessels inspired the Spanish-American War and our fateful escalation in Vietnam. If we come to blows with...

Marge and Sherm Telleen met in the early fifties as freshmen at Stanford but didn't date until their senior year. It finally took, because they were married for 73 years. Marge died in October....

A bishop’s weekend can entail a Sunday visitation to a congregation where ministry is usually well established, plus a Saturday celebration of a rector or vicar’s new ministry. This was my joyful...

The archbishop’s invitation to pray for the spiritual healing of the world sent this humble pilgrim to Isaiah, prophet of Advent, who wrote 700 years before Christ that nations would beat their...

Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties, may be duly...

Almighty God, you have blessed us with the joy and care of children: Give us calm strength and patient wisdom as we bring them up, that we may teach them to love whatever is just and true and good,...

At this morning's ingathering for the United Thank Offering, which Holy Trinity Saint Benedict Episcopal Church in Alhambra does twice a year, the big donation box enclosed so many little blue boxes...

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility;...

It was a blessing to spend a little time this morning with a group of colleagues who are way smarter than the federal government — the 40-odd volunteers at today's St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park and...

Almighty God, you have given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication to you; and you have promised through your well-beloved Son that when two or three are gathered...