The Bishop's Blog
The Bishop’s Blog: All Saints’ Church, Beverly Hills
If it's the Tuesday night before Thanksgiving, then it's time for confirmations, receptions, and reaffirmations of baptismal vows – at least at All Saints', Beverly Hills, or so the Holy Spirit...
The Bishop’s Blog: All Saints’ Church, Riverside
Eighteen pilgrims celebrated Christ the King Sunday at All Saints Riverside today by standing up in the great congregation to be confirmed or received or to renew their baptismal vows. They did it,...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. Edmund’s Church, San Marino
The vestry and wardens of St. Edmund's Episcopal Church in San Marino wrote to their members on Feb. 22, 2020 that they’d called the Rev. Jenifer Chatfield to be their eighth rector. They had two...
The Bishop’s Blog: All Saints’ Church, Santa Barbara
We gathered over 200 strong outside All Saints by the Sea in Montecito at 10:30 a.m. Sunday in a shroud of central coast fog, which was unusual for November but not unwelcomed by those who remember...
The Bishop’s Blog: Desert Journeys, Joshua Tree
Born in Tucson, raised in New York, the Rev. Canon David Caffrey has had a heart for the desert for as long as he can remember. He’s served churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. James’ Church, Los Angeles
As the neighborhood around 110-year-old St. James' in the City in the Wilshire District of Los Angeles has changed, so its manifestation of the face of God, with members representing many nations...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. John’s Church, La Verne
As a brand new vicar at Saint John's Episcopal Church in La Verne, the Rev. Elizabeth McQuitty had two Sundays in church with her folks in March 2020 before the lights went out. She and her...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. Luke’s Church, Long Beach
When I visited St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Long Beach on-line last October and met with the vestry, we talked about how a parish known for its activism was contending with a pandemic that was...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. Richard’s Church, Lake Arrowhead
The Revs. Gary Bradley and Peg Bradley met in the late 1970s among the Ponderosa pines in Flagstaff, where he was a 29-year-old bilingual Roman Catholic parish priest and she a nun attending...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. Francis of Assisi Church, Palos Verdes Estates
When it comes to vocational discernment, it often takes a priest to know one. The Rev. Jerry Sather was ordained in 2017, while serving as an Air Force chaplain. A former Nazarene and Methodist...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. Michael & All Angels Church, Corona Del Mar
Dr. Larry Spang, retired from the U.S. Public Health Service with the rank of commander, is a veteran activist, inducted in the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. Brooke Pauley (yes, her family’s...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. Paul’s and Emmanuel Church, Santa Paula
At St. Paul's Episcopal and Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Santa Paula, the Episcopalians love Lent. The Lutherans enjoy these weeks of mounting anticipation of the start of the new church year in...