The Bishop's Blog
The Antichrist in Our Time
Tech tycoon Peter Thiel is in Rome giving a series of private lectures about the antichrist. He actually doesn’t have to leave his hotel suite. All he has to do is look in the mirror. He won’t see...
Bishops Gather at Camp Allen in Texas
Meeting for a week beginning today at Camp Allen in Texas, not far from Austin, we Episcopal bishops are devoting our time to seminary education and the formation of priests in a changing church....
Visiting St. Clement of Rome, Huntington Park
The Holy Spirit keeps bringing me back to Huntington Park and lively, welcoming St. Clement of Rome Episcopal Church. Bishops’ visitations here feature dozens of confirmation candidates, sometimes...
CSU Long Beach powwow
Arlie Neskah, a member of the Diné-Navajo nation, is a musician, composer, and artist who is serving as MC at this weekend’s 53rd annual powwow at California State University, Long Beach. He kept it...
Prayers for Bishop Gretchen Rehberg
Encouraging news, as of 7:38 p.m. today, from The Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane about the Rt. Rev. Gretchen M Rehberg, whose long-awaited double lung transplant surgery began...
A Multi-Faith Response to Our Current Constitutional Crisis
We’re gathered in the memory and spirit of activist and organizer Umar Hakim-Dey. I was in a small group with Umar once. He wanted to begin with what we agreed on already. Let’s follow his example....
Rev. Andrew Rutledge celebration of new ministry
A native of West Virginia, the Rev. Andrew Rutledge was working as a charge nurse at UCLA when, nearly 20 years ago, he visited the beautiful community of Los Olivos and fell in love with St. Mark's...
Amazing People
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Bishop-elect Antonio Gallardo L., at the latest of our periodic lunches in Pico Rivera at Norm’s; it never...
Desert Journeys Lenten quiet day
During our Lenten quiet day on Wednesday at the Desert Journeys Retreat Center in Twentynine Palms, I was in the library, reading Elizabeth Day’s saucy new novel about British politics. Outside I...
Heresy in The Pentagon
The Pentagon is a hotbed of heresy. This week Hegseth ridiculed rules of engagement that govern the military’s use of deadly force. Operatically a Christian, he desecrates our Lord’s gospel by...
Gustavo Dudamel
Once more I took my weakening ears into the breach, that oasis of glorious sound, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, to see Gustavo Dudamel conduct the LA Phil before he decamps to New York at the end of...
Hearing the Echoes
Our youngest grandchild, Emmett, who is seven months old, lives in New York. He and his parents, Dan and Michelle, came to visit Kathy and me last week, and for the whole wonderful week. You know...