The Bishop's Blog
Daily prayer: For Clergy Conference
Gracious God, amid the paradoxes and perplexities of leadership in an anxious age, as the bishops, deacons, and priests of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles gather this week for our annual clergy...
Daily prayer: Love
O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may...
Daily prayer: For those who work while others sleep
O God, your unfailing providence sustains the world we live in and the life we live: Watch over those, both night and day, who work while others sleep, and grant that we may never forget that our...
Best birthday party ever
Younger granddaughter Harriet’s fifth birthday week culminated this afternoon at a remarkable spot tucked away in Anaheim (the only one of its precise kind, the owners told me) where a horde of 30...
Daily prayer: The way of the cross
Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may...
Campus ministry conference
Chaplains and others offering campus ministry around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles gathered Tuesday at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, early in a fateful week. When we began planning this...
Daily prayer: Athanasius of Alexandria
O Lord, who established your servant Athanasius, through wisdom, in your truth: Grant that we, perceiving the humanity and divinity of your Son Jesus Christ, may follow in his footsteps and ascend...
Daily prayer: Common life
O God, you have bound us together in a common life. Help us, in the midst of our struggles for justice and truth, to confront one another without hatred or bitterness, and to work together with...
Daily prayer: University chaplains
Lord, may we all be moved to be chaplains wherever You place us. May we be your hands and feet, bringing blessings to those we encounter as we receive your blessings. May we be your voice as we...
Visiting Iglesia Episcopal Immanuel, El Monte
The Ethiopian official was in Gaza, on a wilderness road from Jerusalem on the way south toward Sinai, Egypt, and home. He was pondering the words of Isaiah. Since he was rich, in charge of the...
Daily prayer: HFS Adoption & Foster Care 75th Anniversary
Gracious and loving God, for 75 years of HFS Adoption & Foster Care, for the 75 adoptee stories we’re collecting this anniversary year, and for 75×75 lives transformed in ways we’ll never fully...
Visits with the next generation, Changeist and more
During check-in with five girls ages 7-14 from Iglesia Episcopal de La Magdalena in Glendale, who visited me Saturday at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park along with their parish leaders, including...