The Bishop's Blog

O God, you made us in your own image and redeemed us through Jesus your Son: Look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down...

Happy Veterans Day to the 18 million Americans who have served in the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard. We pray as well for the 1.3 million on active duty. They all served and serve...

Almighty God, this Veterans Day we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad, those under active duty and those who have completed their...

My scrapbook from a busy one-day 139th convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles at the Riverside Convention Center on Saturday, including bracing prophetic witness into our historic times...

Gracious and loving God, a half-century ago today, at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., the Rev. Alison Cheek, one of the Philadelphia 11, became the first woman...

Almighty and ever living God, source of all wisdom and understanding, be present with those who take counsel today, during the 129th annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, for...

Almighty God, who hast promised to hear the petitions of those who ask in thy Son's Name: We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ear to us who have now made our prayers and supplications unto...

Almighty God, you sent Jesus not when things were going well but to light your people through impossibly difficult times. You gave me the gifts of being and of your constant love and ask only that I...

What they said was the most important election of our lifetime really was. While the anti-incumbent factor was huge, we’re not going to figure it all out right away. If we’re people of faith, we’re...

Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart and especially the hearts of the people of this land, that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions...

“Use both hands.” When the Anaheim Angels won the World Series in 2002, just for a moment Angel Darin Erstad was ten again. He got the final out after the Giants’ Kenny Lofton hit a pop fly to...

If you’re a bishop, I have a suggestion, which is that you to want avoid being the preacher the day a church is welcoming its new vicar. But with the Rev. Tim Black and his spouse, Patricia, just in...