The Bishop's Blog

It would be impossible to exaggerate the number of conversations around The Episcopal Church that come down to the fundamental question of how we help the Holy Spirit form mature Christian...

One family was nervous about bringing their kids to the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Santa Ana on Sunday for their confirmation. They’d heard about ICE stopping people while driving, smashing...

I’ve been thinking of Galveston, Texas as a crossroads of intersectionality -- a kind of new Jerusalem, not in heaven but on earth. A place where God’s realm makes its comfortable earthly home. It...

O God, the author of peace and lover of concord, to know you is eternal life and to serve you is perfect freedom: Defend us, your humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely...

Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone: Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by...

Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties, may be duly...

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may...

Almighty and most merciful God, grant that by the indwelling of your Holy Spirit we may be enlightened and strengthened for your service; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with...

Almighty God, by whose providence your servant John the Baptist was wonderfully born, and sent to prepare the way of your Son our Savior by preaching repentance: Make us so to follow his teaching...

What would Richard Nixon think of President Trump? Knowing I used to work for 37, people sometimes ask me. It’s a vexing question. The 30 years I spent in Nixonland, from part-time undergraduate...

Holy God, we each bear your image, and to you, every life is precious and every death a grief. You forget none whom you have made, and you number us one by one. Teach us to do the same. Lend an...

After church today, what did you talk about at coffee hour? I was at St. Nicholas of Myra in Encino. After 37 confirmations, two first communions, and a delicious lunch, a woman told me that she has...