The Bishop's Blog

With the legendary Charlie Munger this afternoon at Harvard-Westlake School, as the board gathered for our annual half-day retreat. Charlie's been a trustee for a half-century. When we weren't...

For 15 years, the Rev. Dr. Dan Heischman has served as executive director of the National Association of Episcopal Schools, making him chief guru for the practical miracles of Episcopal identity and...

God in heaven, by your grace the virgin mother of your incarnate Son was blessed in bearing him, but still more blessed in keeping your word: Grant us who honor the exaltation of her lowliness to...

St. Alban's Episcopal Church, Westwood, built in 1931, has grown up next door to UCLA, designated the second campus in the University of California system in 1919. The parish’s founders were...

Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping those who serve in our armed forces at home and abroad. As we remember this Memorial Day all those who sacrificed themselves for our...

With classical and popular music and readings from poets and writers she loved, family members and friends of mezzo-soprano Christen K. Herman celebrated her life this afternoon at St. Athanasius...

Draw the souls of your people into your love, O God, that like your servant Mechthild, we may yearn to be fully yours, for you know us better than we can know ourselves; through Jesus Christ our...

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...

To celebrate Ascension Day the Rev. Canon David Caffrey-style, I ascended along Twentynine Palms Highway to his Desert Journeys Retreat Center just inside the Twentynine Palms city line,...

Almighty God, whose blessed Son our Savior Jesus Christ ascended far above all heavens that he might fill all things: Mercifully give us faith to perceive that, according to his promise, he abides...

Dear God, How can this happen? Again. How can we be no closer to your reign of peace? When will we ever learn? Are these the questions you, too, are asking? We pray for those who have died, for them...

Anyone who’s been in a classroom — and that would be all of us — must be imagining the scene at Robb Elementary School today. Imagining getting the phone call from the police or the hospital....