The Bishop's Blog
Historical perspective on sacred resistance
Posted early on Sunday by law professor Jeff Baker, a chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles: Some history: The major "riots" in Los Angeles - Watts, the Rodney King uprising in 1992 -...
Daily prayer: Pentecost
Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the...
Prayers for peaceful resistance
We gather to pray for peace with justice. We pray for an end to the unjust use of state power against the people of God, especially immigrant workers seized from their places of honest work in our...
Sacred resistance
I join Mayor Karen Bass and Episcopal Sacred Resistance - Los Angeles in condemning Friday’s ICE raids at workplaces in downtown Los Angeles and elsewhere in southern California. Affecting members...
Daily prayer: For compassion on immigrant workers
God of compassion and justice, give the people of the United States a better understanding of the plight of the immigrant worker. Inspire us to demand that our leaders undertake the long-overdue...
Daily prayer: The way of the cross
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...
Daily prayer: St. Boniface
Pour out your Holy Spirit, O God, upon your church in every land, that like your servant Boniface we might proclaim the Gospel to all nations, that your kingdom might be enlarged and that your holy...
Daily prayer: Martyrs of Uganda
O God, by whose providence the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church: Grant that we who remember before you the blessed martyrs of Uganda, may, like them, be steadfast in our faith in Jesus...
The old Claremont School of Theology
Driving through Claremont on Sunday afternoon, I stopped off at the old campus of the Claremont School of Theology, where I spent many rich hours and days around the turn of the century. After a...
Visiting St. Columba’s, Camarillo, and St. Richard of Chichester, Lake Arrowhead
A new rector, thinking of new ways to share the saving, unifying power of the sacraments of Jesus Christ with his parish’s neighbors. A mountaintop mission on the 40th anniversary of its dedication,...
What Jesus would have us do this Pride month
Episcopalians are blue, red, and sometimes a good Anglican shade of purple. But our rainbow colors don’t run when our government attacks our trans and nonbinary siblings. Every American, no matter...
In the Key of Heart
Canon Kathy Hannigan O'Connor believed in the idea of having my portrait painted long before I did. My reaction was that the first six guys actually looked like bishops. I couldn’t quite imagine...