The Bishop's Blog

Driving through Claremont on Sunday afternoon, I stopped off at the old campus of the Claremont School of Theology, where I spent many rich hours and days around the turn of the century. After a...

A new rector, thinking of new ways to share the saving, unifying power of the sacraments of Jesus Christ with his parish’s neighbors. A mountaintop mission on the 40th anniversary of its dedication,...

Episcopalians are blue, red, and sometimes a good Anglican shade of purple. But our rainbow colors don’t run when our government attacks our trans and nonbinary siblings. Every American, no matter...

Canon Kathy Hannigan O'Connor believed in the idea of having my portrait painted long before I did. My reaction was that the first six guys actually looked like bishops. I couldn’t quite imagine...

Next time you’re driving, notice how many cars have dents and dings. I didn’t until recently, after Kathy and I fell victim to highway slobbery. We were minding our own business at a red light on...

Almighty God, guide the nations of the world into the way of justice and truth, and establish among them that peace which is the fruit of righteousness, that they may become the kingdom of the Lord...

Almighty and everlasting God, you made the universe with all its marvelous order, its atoms, worlds, and galaxies, and the infinite complexity of living creatures: Grant that, as we probe the...

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...

I had a rich weekend of ministry in the Inland Empire, perhaps the largest swath of the vast Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. Our congregations in Riverside and San Bernardino counties are redolent...

Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping those who serve in our armed forces at home and abroad. As we remember this Memorial Day all those who sacrificed themselves for our...

O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may...

O God, who sent your son Jesus Christ to preach peace to those who are far off and to those who are near: Grant that we, like your servant Jackson Kemper, may proclaim the Gospel in our own day,...