The Bishop's Blog

Almighty God, who summons the nations to acts of wisdom and justice: We offer prayers today for all in authority in the U.S. and the Atlantic alliance, especially when the imperatives of standing up...

Almighty God, we pray for the safety of Marina Ovsyannikova, the journalist who risked her life interrupting Putin propaganda with a message of truth and peace, and of all in Russia who are...

Eternal God, whose son is the way, the truth, and the life: Journalists in wartime — those whom despots call enemies of the people — risk their lives by telling us the truth and showing us the way....

In its 10th year, in recently expanded facilities in the heart of old Hollywood, The Episcopal School of Los Angeles, serving students from grades six through 12, is founded on the understanding...

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...

Members of the U.S. priory of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, which supports eye hospitals in Israel and Palestine, are having a planning retreat this weekend at...

Betty Hobbs lived at Leisure World Seal Beach California for 41 years and was a faithful member of St. Theodore of Canterbury until her death early this year. She and the amazing Anne Walshe, a...

Almighty God, whose son proclaimed that all would be one in you: Global crisis – climate change and pandemic; a war thousands of miles away that raises the price we pay for gasoline and bread –...

God of justice and truth, you grieved our scapegoating of our Japanese American neighbors during World War II and our neighbors of Chinese background during the pandemic. Ukraine is the victim of...

Gracious God, most who first heard the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ lived their whole lives in circumstances beyond their control, constrained and oppressed by empire, bigotry, and subsistence...

Almighty God, whose unblinking eye weeps at every life we take: Help us be mindful of the thousands who have perished already this year in wars in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Myanmar, and Yemen even as...

God of mercy and truth, we pray today for young people, who are experiencing a reality that brings into horrifying three dimensions the kinds of events they knew only from textbooks, novels, and...