The Bishop's Blog
A visit with the Rev. Ellen Wekall
The Rev. Dr. Ellen Wekall, now 97, has advised four Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles bishops, including me, which is to say a majority of the seven. Since another is due not long after her...
Daily prayer: A collect for peace
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...
Daily prayer: William White
O Lord, who in a time of turmoil and confusion raised up your servant William White to lead your church into ways of stability and peace; Hear our prayer, and give us wise and faithful leaders,...
Visiting St. Mark’s Church, Van Nuys
Dave Alvin, cofounder of the Blasters and now a legendary roadhouse rocker, reflecting recently to a journalist about the ethnic and racial diversity of his home town of Downey, called it a...
Daily prayer: Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to...
Daily prayer: Extreme weather
Merciful God, we pray for all those at risk as a result of extreme weather, especially our neighbors throughout the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles during the impending heat wave, when the...
Amazing people around the diocese
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including the Rev. Canons Melissa McCarthy and Susan Russell along with peerless lay leaders and friends from my St....
Daily prayer: Argula von Grumbach
Almighty God, who gave your servant Argula von Grumbach a spirit of wisdom and power to love your Word and to boldly draw others to its truth: Pour out that same spirit upon us, that we, knowing and...
Daily prayer: Heat wave
Merciful God, we pray for all those at risk as a result of extreme weather, especially our neighbors throughout the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles during the impending heat wave, when the...
Daily prayer: A prayer of self-dedication
Almighty and eternal God, so draw our hearts to you, so guide our minds, so fill our imaginations, so control our wills, that we may be wholly yours, utterly dedicated unto you; and then use us, we...
Amazing Episcopalians: Jeffrey Thornberg and Fernando Valdez
The first two courses of my week around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles: On Monday, breakfast with the Rev. Jeffrey Stoller Thornberg, rector of The Church of Our Saviour in San Gabriel, and...
Conference on White Christian Nationalism
Nearly 70 people made time on Sunday afternoon to gather in the great hall of St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park for an Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles mini-conference on white Christian nationalism,...