The Bishop's Blog

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...

“The loving thing” is the whole thing at Saint Matthias Episcopal Church, two blocks from Whittier College. For a third of a century, its members have handed out food Monday through Friday to anyone...

Reveal to us your saving word, O God, that like your servant William Tyndale we might hear its call to repentance and new life. Plant in our hearts that same consuming passion to bring the...

O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light rises up in darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what you would have us to do, that the...

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including at the Saints Alive lunch and speaker program at The Parish of St. Matthew - The Episcopal Church in Pacific...