The Bishop's Blog

Because she doesn’t ever give up on the people she loves, Leslie Knope, the small-town bureaucrat from “Parks and Recreation,” performed by series producer Amy Poehler, is now, for me, the Platonic...

The annual meeting of the Episcopal Community Federal Credit Union, which took place Tuesday evening at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, always feels like a family picnic, right down to the tasty...

Most Merciful God, who blessed your servant Helena with such grace and devotion to you that she venerated the very footsteps of our Savior; Grant unto us the same grace that, aided by her prayers...

When he was five, the Rev. Canon Paul D Edwards, now 93, looked at a tree and saw that it was alive with light and life. He picked up a branch, and it shone like the sun. When he came to Christ as a...

Almighty God, who raised up your servant Alcuin as a beacon of learning: Shine in our hearts, we pray, that we may also show forth your praise in our own generation, for you have called us out of...

A message from Cristosal, which has close ties to The Episcopal Church, about the El Salvador regime's arrest of Ruth Lopez. a prominent civil rights activist.   Dear friends,   I am writing with...

Direct your Church, O Lord, into the beauty of holiness, that, following the good example of your servant Dunstan, we may honor your Son Jesus Christ with our lips and in our lives; to the glory of...

Justice tastes sweet enough by itself. It also goes great with brunch. At Kathy's and my house over the weekend, the east Pasadena episcopal residence of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, we...

Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way...

Eternal and ever-gracious God, who blessed your servant Thurgood Marshall with grace and courage to discern and speak the truth: Grant that, following his example, we may know you and recognize that...

O God, in the course of this busy life, give us times of refreshment and peace; and grant that we may so use our leisure to rebuild our body and renew our minds, that our spirits may be opened to...

Mark’s gospel says that when Jesus came up out of the waters of the Jordan River, the heavens were torn apart. When we say the skies crack open, we usually mean that someone got drenched. At Jesus’s...