The Bishop's Blog

“Good Samaritan” falls from the tongue so easily that we forget that, in Jesus’s time, Samaritans were considered heretics. They didn’t worship at the temple in Jerusalem. The high priests said they...

O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to...

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Parry Popejoy and Sean Wagener, partners for 26 years and members of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal...

A couple planning to move within a year should stay away from the Friends of the Pasadena Public Library’s summer used book sale. Kathy and I are in our dispensationalist era. Although I once loved...

Almighty God, we thank you for making the earth fruitful, so that it might produce what is needed for life: Bless those who work in the fields; give us seasonable weather; and grant that we may all...

O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one...

Here’s a Christian ethics question. Say a domestic terrorist uses a gun to kill innocents. Trump has made savage cuts in U.S. foreign aid, knowing his actions, if not reversed, could result in 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...

Brie Loskota, a leading expert on faith in the public square, put it bluntly to Los Angeles chief of police Jim McDonnell. “The trust you’ve earned in drops,” she said, “could be lost in buckets.”...

God of grace and might, who gave to your servants Aquila and Priscilla gifts of zeal and eloquence to make known the truth of the Gospel: Raise up, we pray, in every country, heralds and evangelists...

Please join me in supporting relief efforts in the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas, which is caring for the families of Episcopalians and others lost in the floods. I know everyone remembers how...

Holy Spirit, open our eyes, our ears, and our hearts, that we may grow closer to you through joy and through suffering. Be with us in the fullness of your power as new members are added to your...