The Bishop's Blog

Be our light in the darkness, O Lord, and in your great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of your only Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. — Book of Common...

With U.S. funding for refugees again on the rise, IRIS Interfaith Refugee & Immigration Service, Los Angeles, a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, is rolling up its institutional...

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...

When I visited St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church, Corona, CA in March 2020, I proved to be the harbinger of doom. Two weeks later, we had to close every mission and parish in the Episcopal...

Almighty God, you rescued your people from slavery in Egypt, and throughout the ages you have never failed to hear the cries of the captives. We remember before you our siblings in Galveston, Texas...

I awoke at 4 a.m. thinking about “ET: The Extraterrestrial,” Steven Spielberg’s 1982 movie about a boy and his alien — specifically the line where a scientist says jubilantly, “He’s got DNA.”...

Keep, O Lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we (and especially, this day, we fathers) may proclaim your truth with boldness, and minister your...

My scrapbook from tonight’s 93rd birthday party, at her beloved St. George's Episcopal Church, Riverside, for parasitologist and philanthropist Saroj Mankau. The vicar, the Rev. Karri Backer,...

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...