The Bishop's Blog
Daily prayer: 18th Sunday after Pentecost
Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing away, to hold fast to those that shall endure;...
Celebrating Episcopal Communities and Services
On Friday, as it does on Sept. 22 every year, The Episcopal Church remembered the legion of deaconesses who were set apart to care for those in need from late in the 19th century until the...
Innovators at UC San Diego
An expert in artificial intelligence, Pradeep Khosla (right) has been chancellor of my alma mater, UC San Diego, for 11 years, supercharging its reputation as a national R&D powerhouse,...
Daily prayer: Thecla
God of liberating power, who called Thecla to proclaim the gospel and did not permit any obstacle or peril to inhibit her: Empower courageous evangelists among us, that men and women everywhere may...
Report on Presiding Bishop Curry’s surgery
From The Episcopal Church: "Following Wednesday’s surgery, Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry is awake and talking, and he remains in the intensive care unit of the hospital. Your ongoing prayers for...
Daily prayer: Deaconesses
O God of love, we bless you for calling and equipping the deaconesses of The Episcopal Church, who, before the Church had faced up to the historic injustices of gender and identification inequity,...
Daily prayer: Matthew
We thank you, heavenly God, for the witness of your apostle and evangelist Matthew to the Gospel of your Son our Savior; and we pray that, after his example, we may with ready wills and hearts obey...
Daily prayer: God’s creation
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...
Daily prayer: Theodore of Tarsus
Almighty God, who gave your servant Theodore of Tarsus gifts of grace and wisdom to establish unity where there had been division and order where there had been chaos: Create in your church, by the...
Installation of Bishop Gerry Engnan, Iglesia Filipina Independiente
My scrapbook from Sunday afternoon’s installation service for our colleague the Rt. Rev. Gerry Engnan of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente’s (PIC) Diocese of the Western U.S., Canada, and the...
Visiting St. John Chrysostom Church, Rancho Santa Margarita
The Rev. Jerry Sather, the former U.S. Air Force chaplain who serves as gracious interim priest in charge at St John Chrysostom Church in Rancho Santa Margarita, welcomed Canon Kathy Hannigan...
Daily prayer: Edward Bouverie Pusey
Grant, O God, that in all time of our testing we may know your presence and obey your will; that, following the example of your servant Edward Bouverie Pusey, we may with integrity and courage...