The Bishop's Blog

Thinking about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I’ve always wondered what it was like being in church with him on Sunday. Seeing him on the steps on the way to services or maybe when he dropped...

O God, you willed to redeem us from all iniquity by your Son: Deliver us when we are tempted to regard sin without abhorrence, and let the virtue of his passion come between us and our mortal enemy;...

Let your Spirit, O Lord, come into the midst of us to wash us with the pure water of repentance, and prepare us to be always a living sacrifice to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and...

In “The American President,” after a fictional POTUS gives a dazzling speech, an aide predicts that the press corps would be falling over themselves doublechecking how to spell erudite. I had the...

O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the...

O God, by your Word you marvelously carry out the work of reconciliation: Grant that in our Lenten fast we may be devoted to you with all our hearts, and united with one another in prayer and holy...

Strengthen us, O Lord, by your grace, that in your might we may overcome all spiritual enemies, and with pure hearts serve you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the...

Bless us, O God, in this holy season, in which our hearts seek your help and healing; and so purify us by your discipline that we may grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus...

Grant to your people, Lord, grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow you, the only true God; through Jesus Christ your Son...

Each year on Feb. 13, we remember the life and legacy of Absalom Jones – the first person of African descent ordained a priest in The Episcopal Church, indeed the first in a major American...

Ojai means moon in the language of the indigenous Chumash. The pretty town of 7500 hovers and glows 750 feet of elevation above and 30 miles north of Ventura. Driving up on Sunday for a visitation...

Almighty and everlasting God, mercifully increase in us your gifts of holy discipline, in almsgiving, prayer, and fasting; that our lives may be directed to the fulfilling of your most gracious...