The Bishop's Blog

Holy God, we each bear your image, and to you, every life is precious and every death a grief. You forget none whom you have made, and you number us one by one. Teach us to do the same. Lend an...

After church today, what did you talk about at coffee hour? I was at St. Nicholas of Myra in Encino. After 37 confirmations, two first communions, and a delicious lunch, a woman told me that she has...

The never Trumper finds it hard praying Trump gets the political win on Iran. But one must. Trump failing would be a reciprocal attack on United States volunteers serving in the region or civilians...

O Lord, make us have perpetual love and reverence for your holy Name, for you never fail to help and govern those whom you have set upon the sure foundation of your loving­-kindness; through Jesus...

Visitors to the Pasadena Museum of History can see, among 100 other works in a centennial exhibition, these views of a Pasadena hillside by Orrin A. White (1883-1969); Santa Clarita’s Vasquez Rocks,...

Almighty God, kindle, we pray, in every heart the true love of peace, and guide with your wisdom those who take counsel for the nations of the earth, that in tranquillity your dominion may increase...

My scrapbook from the ordination and consecration Friday evening of the Rev. Payton Walker Høegh in the Sacred Order of Deacons. By the mysterious working of the calendar, Payton was our only...

Almighty God, you declare your glory and show forth your handiwork in the heavens and in the earth: Deliver us from the service of self alone, that we may do the work you give us to do in truth and...

Almighty God, guide the nations of the world into the way of justice and truth, and establish among them that peace which is the fruit of righteousness, that they may become the kingdom of the Lord...

Below are my welcoming remarks at “A Juneteenth Sacred Resistance Concert,” sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles' Program Group on Black Ministry, the H. Belfield Hannibal Union of...

When the Gaza and Iran wars are over, the Palestinian question will remain. It’s possible to imagine a scenario where these agonies set the stage for what most experts had decided was impossible —...

Almighty God, you rescued your people from slavery in Egypt, and throughout the ages you have never failed to hear the cries of the captives. We remember before you our siblings in Galveston, Texas,...