The Bishop's Blog
Of greeting cards and Dollar Tree
I buy greeting cards at drug stores and supermarkets and confess to not paying much attention to price increases over the years. The little 0199 on the back of the typical Hallmark or American...
Daily prayer: ‘A Case for Love’
God of love, the love, as Fritz Bauerschmidt writes, that is God, we give you thanks for the life and ministry of Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry and for the healing and wholeness he is...
Daily prayer: Vincent of Saragossa
Almighty God, whose deacon Vincent, upheld by you, was neither terrified by threats nor overcome by torments: Strengthen us to endure all adversity with invincible and steadfast faith; through Jesus...
Visiting St. John’s Church, La Verne
As the Holy Spirit would have it, my visit today to Saint John's La Verne came a week after its vicar, the Rev. Elizabeth Kronenberg, announced that she’d been called to join the staff of Christ...
Daily prayer: Third Sunday after the Epiphany
Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our Savior Jesus Christ and proclaim to all people the Good News of his salvation, that we and the whole world may perceive the glory of his...
A new ministry at St. George’s, Riverside
Born in Claremont, raised outside any tradition of faith, the Rev. Dr. Karri Backer, when she was in early twenties, worked in a coffee house in Rancho Cucamonga and had lots of friends who tried to...
Daily prayer: Pope Fabian
Grant, Almighty God, that in all times of trial and persecution, we might remain steadfast in faith and endurance, according to the example of your servant Fabian, who was faithful even unto death....
The Rev. Jim Friedrich, itinerant religious engineer
For the first quarter century of his ordained ministry, until a season as priest in charge at Christ Church in Ontario in the nineties, the Rev. Jim Friedrich managed to avoid attending a vestry...
Daily prayer: for Norma and Michael
Gracious and loving God, who holds close all you have made, we offer prayers of thanksgiving this morning that Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry is resting at home after a successful procedure...
Daily prayer: Simon Peter
Almighty God, who inspired Simon Peter, first among the apostles, to confess Jesus as Messiah and Son of the living God: Keep your Church steadfast upon the rock of this faith, so that in unity and...
Daily prayer: Anthony the Great
O God, as you by your Holy Spirit enabled your servant Anthony to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil; so give us grace to follow you with pure hearts and minds, through...
Daily prayer: For guidance
O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light rises up in darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what you would have us to do, that the...