The Bishop's Blog

"At the end of a long road was a drive that led to a large house, and we stumbled up the darkness of the drive that night, each one of us afraid, each one holding a stone in his hand in case, and...

I invite the prayers of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles community for the Rev. Toni Freeman Stuart of Montecito, who has been battling cancer and is nearing the frontier. Raised in the Los...

“In my father’s house, there are many dwelling places.” In our earthly houses, there are many ways to be a father. And under the job description for father, which is to say for any parent, appear an...

Let’s begin tonight with our astonishment. Let’s get our red and green Christmas socks knocked off and then see where the little child leads us.The prophet Isaiah reckons that the birth of a Savior...

You meet the most amazing people in the days before Christmas around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Seeds of Hope executive director Steven Trapasso, who dropped by with Alana,...

My album from the longest night of the year on Sunday, which the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels marked with its annual memorial service for unhoused people who died on the streets of Los...

A few days before the Feast of the Nativity, let’s see if we can manage a Christmas prayer for the alleged drug couriers Trump is massacring on the high seas. A prayer for over a hundred dead,...

As 14-year-old pianist Qien Joseph Hu performed Saturday evening at St. John's Cathedral, I didn’t recognize the piece. As it turned out, almost no one did, except perhaps his pastor mother,...

Holy one, the violence this weekend was too much to bear, preying on the innocent at a temple of learning at Brown, on a beach in Australia as our siblings in faith celebrated the miracle of...

Remember the Maine and the Gulf of Tonkin. Please. Fish stories about attacks on U.S. naval vessels inspired the Spanish-American War and our fateful escalation in Vietnam. If we come to blows with...

Marge and Sherm Telleen met in the early fifties as freshmen at Stanford but didn't date until their senior year. It finally took, because they were married for 73 years. Marge died in October....

A bishop’s weekend can entail a Sunday visitation to a congregation where ministry is usually well established, plus a Saturday celebration of a rector or vicar’s new ministry. This was my joyful...