The Bishop's Blog
On the road: Black Bear Diner
I’ve been from Tucson to Tucumcari, Tehachapi to Tonopah (name that song). But since my last visit to the truck stop in Tonopah, an hour out of Phoenix on the I-10, the Black Bear Diner has opened,...
On the road: Eusabio and the Hoover Dam
In Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Archbishop,” published in 1927, Bishop Latour, patterned after the real-life first bishop of Santa Fe in the late 19th century, sets out through the Arizona...
Daily prayer: Six days on the road
Patient God, when in our daily lives we are tempted by shortcuts, help us remember that we will always experience more of your glorious creation taking the long way around. Through Jesus Christ our...
Daily prayer: The desert sky
“The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still — and there was so much sky, more than at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there,...
On the road: Santa Fe, Willa Cather, and a real/fictional archbishop
As I arrived in Santa Fe the other evening, Archbishop Jean Marie Latour was on his deathbed — on books on tape, that is. Thanks to a gloriously apt suggestion from a Facebook friend, Jean and his...
Daily prayer: For vocation and ministry
Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and prayers which we offer before you for all members of...
On the road: Acoma Pueblo
The only cottonwood tree on old Acoma mesa was planted by the great-grandfather of our guide, who gave us permission to call him Gooby. The nickname is derived from his Acoma name, which he said...
Daily prayer: Jonathan Myrick Daniels
O God of justice and compassion, you put down the proud and the mighty from their place, and lift up the poor and afflicted: We give you thanks for your faithful witness Jonathan Myrick Daniels,...
A letter to the Diocese of Los Angeles
Isaiah writes this: “I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert” [43:19]. Vocalizing the promise of our...
The Grand Canyon, petroglyphs and the empty tomb
When my elder daughter, Valerie, was eleven, she and I hiked the Bright Angel Trail from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon to the Phantom Ranch at the bottom, where they used to serve your choice of...
Daily prayer: For peace
O God, it is your will to hold both heaven and earth in a single peace. Let the design of your great love shine on the waste of our wraths and sorrows, and give peace to your Church, peace among...
Road trip: Boulder City, Nevada
I’m continuing my swing state tour with breakfast at the The World Famous Coffee Cup Cafe in Boulder City followed by a tour of The Hoover Dam, which I have already overheard one grandfather...