The Bishop's Blog

EfM Education for Ministry students, mostly lay leaders in The Episcopal Church, spend four years studying scripture, church history, and Christian ethics — not a seminary education, but a solid...

O God, whose glory fills the whole creation, and whose presence we find wherever we go: Preserve those who travel; surround them with your loving care; protect them from every danger; and bring them...

Daniel Ellsberg’s obituaries make clear that his leak of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 provoked the Nixon administration to a massive overreaction that led to Watergate and Richard Nixon’s disgrace....

O God, who raises up scholars for your church in every generation; we praise you for the wisdom and insight granted to your bishop and theologian Joseph Butler, and pray that your church may never...

You meet the most amazing people around St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park and the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including the Rt. Rev. Naudal Alves Gomes, former primate of the Anglican Episcopal...

O God, Origin, Sustainer, and End of all creatures: Grant that your church, taught by your servant Evelyn Underhill, may continually offer to you all glory and thanksgiving, and attain with your...

The summer before his freshman year at Campbell Hall, a renowned Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles school headquartered in Studio City, Paolo Pesce lost his best friend to an auto accident. It posed...

Almighty God, who has revealed to your church your eternal Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of Persons: Give us grace that, like your bishop Basil of Caesarea, we may...

At the turn of the last century, when people of African descent weren’t welcome at All Saints Episcopal Church Pasadena (where prophets of equity now dwell), some believers whom that injustice had...

Grant, O God, that we may follow the example of your faithful servant Barnabas, who, seeking not his own renown but the well­being of your Church, gave generously of his life and substance for the...

O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and...

My scrapbook from today’s ordination service at St. John’s Cathedral.