The Bishop's Blog

I awoke at 4 a.m. thinking about “ET: The Extraterrestrial,” Steven Spielberg’s 1982 movie about a boy and his alien — specifically the line where a scientist says jubilantly, “He’s got DNA.”...

Keep, O Lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we (and especially, this day, we fathers) may proclaim your truth with boldness, and minister your...

My scrapbook from tonight’s 93rd birthday party, at her beloved St. George's Episcopal Church, Riverside, for parasitologist and philanthropist Saroj Mankau. The vicar, the Rev. Karri Backer,...

EfM Education for Ministry students, mostly lay leaders in The Episcopal Church, spend four years studying scripture, church history, and Christian ethics — not a seminary education, but a solid...

O God, whose glory fills the whole creation, and whose presence we find wherever we go: Preserve those who travel; surround them with your loving care; protect them from every danger; and bring them...

Daniel Ellsberg’s obituaries make clear that his leak of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 provoked the Nixon administration to a massive overreaction that led to Watergate and Richard Nixon’s disgrace....

O God, who raises up scholars for your church in every generation; we praise you for the wisdom and insight granted to your bishop and theologian Joseph Butler, and pray that your church may never...

You meet the most amazing people around St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park and the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including the Rt. Rev. Naudal Alves Gomes, former primate of the Anglican Episcopal...

O God, Origin, Sustainer, and End of all creatures: Grant that your church, taught by your servant Evelyn Underhill, may continually offer to you all glory and thanksgiving, and attain with your...

The summer before his freshman year at Campbell Hall, a renowned Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles school headquartered in Studio City, Paolo Pesce lost his best friend to an auto accident. It posed...

Almighty God, who has revealed to your church your eternal Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of Persons: Give us grace that, like your bishop Basil of Caesarea, we may...

At the turn of the last century, when people of African descent weren’t welcome at All Saints Episcopal Church Pasadena (where prophets of equity now dwell), some believers whom that injustice had...