The Bishop's Blog

“Pero es solo un niño.” He’s just a child. That was what Berta said right before she stepped into the path of a bullet — right before she threw her arms around a 17-year-old stranger and quite...

Almighty God, who gave your servant Argula von Grumbach a spirit of wisdom and power to love your Word and to boldly draw others to its truth: Pour out that same spirit upon us, that we, knowing and...

Valerie Maxwell, for these five years the bishop’s warden of Grace Episcopal Church in Moreno Valley, and I stood bathed in Inland Empire sunshine after services today and vowed to do all we could...

“Good Samaritan” falls from the tongue so easily that we forget that, in Jesus’s time, Samaritans were considered heretics. They didn’t worship at the temple in Jerusalem. The high priests said they...

O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to...

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Parry Popejoy and Sean Wagener, partners for 26 years and members of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal...

A couple planning to move within a year should stay away from the Friends of the Pasadena Public Library’s summer used book sale. Kathy and I are in our dispensationalist era. Although I once loved...

Almighty God, we thank you for making the earth fruitful, so that it might produce what is needed for life: Bless those who work in the fields; give us seasonable weather; and grant that we may all...

O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one...

Here’s a Christian ethics question. Say a domestic terrorist uses a gun to kill innocents. Trump has made savage cuts in U.S. foreign aid, knowing his actions, if not reversed, could result in the...

O God, from whom all good proceeds: Grant that by your inspiration we may think those things that are right, and by your merciful guiding may do them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and...

Brie Loskota, a leading expert on faith in the public square, put it bluntly to Los Angeles chief of police Jim McDonnell. “The trust you’ve earned in drops,” she said, “could be lost in buckets.”...