The Bishop's Blog

Attorney and social worker, advocate and cheerful witness, Ellen Ahn, executive director of Korean Community Services 복지 센터, grew up at St. Stephen's, Hollywood, where her father, the Rev. Ahnmatae...

Nestled on a side street in the city of San Fernando, which is itself enclosed on all sides by neighborhoods in the northernmost reaches of Los Angeles, St. Simon's Episcopal Church/Iglesia...

The Rev. Nathan Biornstad experienced a variety of evangelical and charismatic Christian expressions while growing up and going to college in Portland, where he studied management and marketing. His...

Since 1967 the Christian Study Centre in Rawalpindi, Pakistan has promoted ecumenical and interfaith understanding in a nation of 1.3 million Christians and 200 million Muslims. The Rt. Rev. Samuel...

When visiting The Church of the Epiphany in Oak Park, as I did Sunday to preach and celebrate Holy Eucharist, I ritualistically issue a formal apology for inviting their beloved longtime vicar, the...

A blessing to celebrate the Nativity tonight at Holy Trinity Saint Benedict Episcopal Church in Alhambra, where the devoted, energetic rector, the Rev. Brent Quines Jr., preached and celebrated...

During these pandemic months, the Rev. Neil Tadken, rector for eight and a half years, and his diligent fellow leaders at St. Luke the Physician, Episcopal Church, Monrovia have done a wonderful job...

May all the joys and blessings of this sacred season be with you and those you love. Charles Dickens wrote this of Scrooge: “He carried his own low temperature always about with him. He iced his...

Luke is a high school freshman who enjoys math and English. Eugena is an art restorationist who has worked on Vermeers (of which 37 at most exist). Rita has been a civil rights attorney for over 30...

If it's Advent, it's time for Handel's "Messiah" at St. Cross Episcopal Church in Hermosa Beach -- the 11th nearly annual (we missed last year) installment since the Rev. Laurel Coote and Peter...

When I arrived this morning at Saint Nicholas of Myra Church in Encino, the Rev. Michael Cooper, priest in charge and rector since 2010, showed me some of the treasures gathered by the founding...

Here’s how Trinity Episcopal Church in Redlands spent the first Sunday in Advent. The magnificent St. Dunstan’s Choir, under the direction of Canon Jeffrey Ricard, director of music since 1971, was...