The Bishop's Blog
The Rev. Canon Warner Traynham
The Rev. Canon Warner Traynham’s first conscious memory is hearing legendary radio announcer Gabriel Heatter describing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's funeral train making its way from Warm...
AME’s Founders Day celebration
Former Rep. Stacey Abrams, author and voting rights advocate, brought the gospel imperative of saving democracy to the pulpit Sunday afternoon at First AME Church of Los Angeles, presenting her ten...
Daily prayer: Tuskegee airmen
Almighty and everliving God, we humbly pray that, as your only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple, so we may be presented to you with pure and clean hearts by Jesus Christ our Lord;...
Privilege and rage
It's a classic American story. Within hours of the deadly terrorist bombing of the Murrah federal building Oklahoma City in April 1994, a massive posse descended on three teenagers along a lonely...
Canon David Stuart Eisen, Esq.
At his and Geri’s Manhattan Beach home Jan. 23, it was my blessing to make David Stuart Eisen an honorary canon of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. His schedule did not permit him to accept in...
Alex Pretti and Renee God
"In Minneapolis yesterday, federal agents killed Alex Pretti, as they had already killed Renee Good, during their unjustifiable militarized assault on a peaceful city. "These innocents died because...
Visiting St. Mark’s, Van Nuys
Imagine the world’s 2.4 billion avowed Christians speaking as one, or our nation’s 200 million. We wouldn't have to agree on everything. Just that we insist that governments obey the divine law of...
Faith in love against cruelty
Ordained and consecrated as priests 22 years ago this morning at St. John's Cathedral in Los Angeles, five of us heard Bishop Chet Talton of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, reading from the...
Santo Niño Fiesta at St. John and Holy Child Church, Wilmington
I experienced the authority of Christian unity Sunday — denominations worshiping together against the backdrop of the Philippines’ colonial history, and the body of Christ as a scandal against...
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Christian disciple prays to be an instrument of God's peace. Dr. King knew how hard that could be. “I don't care who you are, I don't care where you live, there is a civil war going on in your...
Jonathan Roberts Celebration of Life
The Holy Spirit did her healing, rousing work all over the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles today, and especially in Beverly Hills and Placentia. All Saints' Beverly Hills bid au revoir to its...
Fr. Vazken Movsesian
Fr. Vazken Movsesian, an innovative priest in the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church, who dropped by this morning for coffee and conversation at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, received his...