The Bishop's Blog

God of justice and love, on the 112th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks, who had been working and advocating for civil rights for 12 years in the Montgomery NAACP before choosing her...

O God, whom saints and angels delight to worship in heaven: Be ever present with your servants who seek through art and music to perfect the praises offered by your people on earth; and grant to...

Robert K. Radke experienced 2004’s historic typhoon season as the breath of the Holy Spirit. A China hand with an Oxford Ph.D, he’d held a series of top posts at the Asia Society, which builds bonds...

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;...

Creator, we lift up and thank you for our Black siblings who have shaped history. We pray that the learning happening this month in schools, homes and workplaces will be meaningful and deep-rooted....

“Let each of you look not to your own interests,” Paul wrote to the Philippians, “but to the interests of others.” Then and now, the greatest challenge for the Christian, no matter how pious, is...

O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and...

This week the government ordered our Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles refugee resettlement agency, IRIS Interfaith Refugee & Immigration Service, to suspend all resettlement work, including for...

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles including my classmate the Rt. Rev. DeDe Duncan-Probe, bishop of Central New York (at right), who met with senior staff...

Lord God Almighty, who has made all the peoples of the earth for your glory, to serve you in freedom and in peace: Give to the people of our country a zeal for justice and the strength of...

As reports come in about ICE raids around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, I write to remind my siblings in Christ that, by act of diocesan convention in December 2016, we are a sanctuary...

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...