The Bishop's Blog

O heavenly God, in whom we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares and occupations of our life we may not forget...

O God, the protector of all who trust in you, without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy: Increase and multiply upon us your mercy; that, with you as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through...

On Friday, the Very Rev. Canon Ian Elliott Davies, rector of Saint Thomas the Apostle, Hollywood, told me about a book by Paul Avis called “Becoming a Bishop: A Theological Handbook of Episcopal...

For my third and likely final visitation at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Monrovia, as it celebrated the feast day of St. Luke, purportedly a physician, I thought about all that our doctors do, if...

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Head of School Laura D. Ross and President Rick Commons of Harvard Westlake School, on whose board I sit (and...

Around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles on Saturday, the love and justice proclaimed in the gospel of Jesus Christ radiated from three communities as they celebrated the ministry of a new...

Creator, you bent the earth like a bow until was one, round, shining planet. At your word the land was drawn into mountains and deserts, forests, and plains; the waters were gathered together into...

Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one...

Kathy’s and my vocational seasons collided, or perhaps elided, on Thursday when we received a visit from our friend and former colleague, Cold War historian and Columbia University professor Tim...

For the Christian disciple, the rise of authoritarianism is a challenge unlike any in our lifetime. Our vocations up until now have not fully equipped us. Relatively civil arguments about politics,...

Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast of your mercy; through...

Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the abundance of your mercy, forgiving us those...