The Bishop's Blog

My scrapbook from this morning’s consecration and ordination at St. John's Cathedral in Los Angeles of the Revs. Karen James, Michael Mischler, Hart Roussel, and Margaret Stīvers, four experienced...

Dear God, you make us creatures of hope and possibility, that we might do our best for those around us and for ourselves. And yet heartbreak and loss attend us as well. Today in Southern California,...

UPDATE: Cleo and Shiloh have found their foster parents. Thanks and blessings to all who reached out These two good-natured wildfire evacuees, Cleo and Shiloh, need a temporary foster home in the...

Thursday’s bogus LA county-wide evacuation warning wasn’t the first official miscue this dark, smoky week. I received the same warning on Wednesday morning, and it actually prompted Kathy and me to...

My spouse for 24 years, friend for 44, and companion the whole way and back, Kathy shares her Jan. 9 birthday with our former boss Richard Nixon as well as her daughter, Meaghan — and now it’s...

Gracious and loving God, this morning in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, we hunger to know. Whether our neighbor's home is safe. How to recover and rebuild when all is lost, at home or at...

Gracious and loving God, we pray for those who are fleeing, and those who are safe; those who battle these fires under the worst possible conditions, and those whom they serve; those who offer help,...

God of the sun and the sea, the rains and the winds, bear all our neighbors through this stormy night and throw a veil of protection over those battling these wildfires under the worst possible...

Gracious God, we pray for all those buffeted by this week's historic wind emergency in southern California and especially for those in the path of wildfires, including in Pacific Palisades, where...

O God, by the leading of a star you manifested your only Son to the peoples of the earth: Lead us, who know you now by faith, to your presence, where we may see your glory face to face; through...

O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature: Grant that we may share the divine life of him who humbled himself to share our humanity, your Son...

Give us grace, O God, to love you in all things and above all things; that, following the example of your servant Elizabeth Ann Seton, we might express our love for you in the service of others....