The Bishop's Blog

Almighty God, who raised up your servant Alcuin as a beacon of learning: Shine in our hearts, we pray, that we may also show forth your praise in our own generation, for you have called us out of...

A message from Cristosal, which has close ties to The Episcopal Church, about the El Salvador regime's arrest of Ruth Lopez. a prominent civil rights activist.   Dear friends,   I am writing with...

Direct your Church, O Lord, into the beauty of holiness, that, following the good example of your servant Dunstan, we may honor your Son Jesus Christ with our lips and in our lives; to the glory of...

Justice tastes sweet enough by itself. It also goes great with brunch. At Kathy's and my house over the weekend, the east Pasadena episcopal residence of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, we...

Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way...

Eternal and ever-gracious God, who blessed your servant Thurgood Marshall with grace and courage to discern and speak the truth: Grant that, following his example, we may know you and recognize that...

O God, in the course of this busy life, give us times of refreshment and peace; and grant that we may so use our leisure to rebuild our body and renew our minds, that our spirits may be opened to...

Mark’s gospel says that when Jesus came up out of the waters of the Jordan River, the heavens were torn apart. When we say the skies crack open, we usually mean that someone got drenched. At Jesus’s...

Set us free, O God, from all false desires, vain ambitions, and everything that would separate us from your love; that, like your servant Pachomius, we might give ourselves fully to a life of...

My scrapbook from the second two days of our wonderful Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles clergy conference

Loving God, we bless your Name for Frances Perkins, who in faithfulness to her baptism envisioned a society in which all might live in health and decency: Help us, following her example and in union...

My scrapbook from the opening evening of our annual Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles clergy conference in Riverside — three days among the finest deacon, lay, and priest colleagues one could hope to...