The Bishop's Blog
Episcopal Relief and Development visiting the diocese
Robert K. Radke experienced 2004’s historic typhoon season as the breath of the Holy Spirit. A China hand with an Oxford Ph.D, he’d held a series of top posts at the Asia Society, which builds bonds...
Daily prayer: For pure hearts
Almighty and everliving God, we humbly pray that, as your only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple, so we may be presented to you with pure and clean hearts by Jesus Christ our Lord;...
Daily prayer: Black History Month
Creator, we lift up and thank you for our Black siblings who have shaped history. We pray that the learning happening this month in schools, homes and workplaces will be meaningful and deep-rooted....
Looking to the interests of others and DEI
“Let each of you look not to your own interests,” Paul wrote to the Philippians, “but to the interests of others.” Then and now, the greatest challenge for the Christian, no matter how pious, is...
Daily prayer: Guide us towards peace
O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and...
IRIS Emergency Fund
This week the government ordered our Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles refugee resettlement agency, IRIS Interfaith Refugee & Immigration Service, to suspend all resettlement work, including for...
Amazing people in the new year
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles including my classmate the Rt. Rev. DeDe Duncan-Probe, bishop of Central New York (at right), who met with senior staff...
Daily prayer: Give us a zeal for justice
Lord God Almighty, who has made all the peoples of the earth for your glory, to serve you in freedom and in peace: Give to the people of our country a zeal for justice and the strength of...
Being a sanctuary diocese
As reports come in about ICE raids around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, I write to remind my siblings in Christ that, by act of diocesan convention in December 2016, we are a sanctuary...
Daily prayer: Take away our hatred
O God, you made us in your own image and redeemed us through Jesus your Son: Look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down...
Daily prayer: John Chrysostom
O God, who gave your servant John Chrysostom grace eloquently to proclaim your righteousness in the great congregation, and fearlessly to bear reproach for the honor of your Name: Mercifully grant...
The witness of the Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
You never know what you’ll hear during worship. I think about that day in the synagogue in Nazareth. Folks probably hadn’t been expecting anything special. Just another sabbath in a subjugated...