The Bishop's Blog
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...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. Ambrose’s Church, Claremont
The Rev. Jessie Smith, installed Saturday as rector of Saint Ambrose Episcopal Church in Claremont, was born and raised in Chester, PA, and graduated from Goddard College in Vermont. Her seminary...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. Cross Church, Hermosa Beach
Holy Eucharist services at 8 and 10 a.m., the magnificent St. Cross choir fully masked and full-throated, acolytes trained with National Cathedral-like precision, and plenty of fellowship and food...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. Augustine by-the-Sea Church, Santa Monica
On the Sunday of Labor Day weekend at St Augustine by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Santa Monica, more people worshiped in person and on-line than had, on average, pre-pandemic — and after an...
The Bishop’s Blog: Groundbreaking at St. Michael’s Ministry Center, Riverside
At today’s groundbreaking and ground blessing ceremony at St. Michael's Riverside Episcopal Ministry Center, Diane Askren set the tone with an opening land acknowledgement. It made us Episcopal...
The Bishop’s Blog: St. John the Evangelist Church, Needles
Official episcopal visitations — that’s when a bishop comes to participate in confirmations and other traditional rituals, generally hosted by the priest in charge — are always a joy. But presiding...
Health & Strength in Community XVI
To the people of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles: Beginning at midnight on Saturday, in response to an alarming rise in COVID-19 infections attributable to the Delta variant, the County of Los...
Health and Strength in Community XV
My siblings in Christ: We’ve all been watching the late spring colors change ever since the State of California announced that CDC COVID-19 protocols would apply statewide beginning tomorrow –...