The Bishop's Blog

Gazing at the Rorschach test of Saturday’s apparent assassination attempt, some understandably imagine conspiracies or ridicule members of our ruling regime. A few might even admit to the hidden,...

Last weekend, from Fresno to downtown Los Angeles, I experienced an immersion in the Sacred Order of Deacons that reinforced something I’ve long believed. Deacons can be at risk of being held back...

Travels around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles on Thursday offered me the opportunity for Eastertide thanksgiving for the work of colleagues who are changing lives all over our region and even...

In the Christian calendar, Lent and Advent are our penitential seasons. Looking ahead to Eastertide and Christmastide, we set aside a Sunday in each for seeing the world through rose-color glasses...

On behalf of executive director Eileen Spencer and her board and staff colleagues at the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, welcome to a reception that was to have been in honor...

The last time the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin ordained and consecrated a bishop its people had elected, it was 1988, and Ronald Reagan was president. It has taken that long for this hearty...

Good morning, Breakfast Clubbers! I believe that’s the fifth time I’ve had the privilege of offering that immortal greeting. I was here twice to talk about Kathy’s and my old boss, President Nixon,...

Bishops experienced in the ministry and art of retirement, of gracious leave-taking unfolding across weeks and months, have told me about the poignancy of last visits to congregations. In a diocese...

The Holy Spirit was lively indeed on Saturday in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles as we bade farewell to a legendary, Spirit-driven priest and then surrounded an ailing colleague in the...

In the joyous spirit of Eastertide reconciliation, 50 members of Lutheran and Episcopal congregations in Seal Beach had church and fellowship on Wednesday with one another and three bishops — David...

“Respectable songs for responsible people” were the stock in trade of Flanders and Swann, practitioners of English light music most famous for their live albums “At the Drop of a Hat" (1957) and “At...

Most of the time in church, we hear the words of Jesus Christ and his great apostle St. Paul – Jesus, of course, the subject of the gospels, Paul the traveling evangelist and epistle writer who...