The Bishop's Blog
Help Bloy House this Halloween
What's really scary this Halloween in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles is imagining our community without the affordable means of local practical and theological training for our thousands of...
Daily prayer: All Hallows Eve
Lord, tonight, we will face all that most concerns us: our fears, the shadowed places of the mind; the coming of winter darkness; the cold thin place between waking and sleep. We call to mind the...
Visiting St. Paul’s, Lancaster
When the people of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Lancaster first gathered for prayer a hundred years ago in the offices of a local newspaper publisher, scientists still believed our galaxy...
Daily prayer: For righteousness and love
Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the strength of love: So mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that all peoples may be...
Daily prayer: For love, worship, and service of God
O God, whom the whole heavens adore: Let the whole earth also worship you, all nations obey you, all tongues confess and bless you, and men and women everywhere love you and serve you in peace;...
Preaching at St. Alban’s, Westwood
When the Rev. Adam Dawkins, rector of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Westwood, was in middle school in Greenville, South Carolina, his parents, Ernie and Faye, decided to move the family across...
Daily prayer: Simon and Jude
O God, we thank you for the glorious company of the apostles, and especially on this day for Simon and Jude; and we pray that, as they were faithful and zealous in their mission, so we may with...
Daily prayer: For faith, hope and charity
Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives...
Daily prayer: Alfred the Great
O God, who called your servant Alfred to an earthly throne that he might advance your heavenly kingdom, and gave him zeal for your Church and love for your people: Grant that we, inspired by his...
A friendly World Series wager
Stop the presses, because the gracious bishop of The Episcopal Diocese of New York, Matthew Heyd (shown here with honorary Angeleno Mary Douglas Glasspool, Matt's colleague and our former bishop...
Daily prayer: Tabitha
Most Holy God, who did raise from the dead your servant Tabitha to display your power and confirm that your Son is Lord; Grant unto us your grace, that, aided by her prayers and example, we may be...
Politics and Peace: A word about the election
My siblings in Christ in the Diocese of Los Angeles: “Peace be with you,” our Lord said to his friends when he appeared to them after the Resurrection. And then he said it again: “Peace be with...