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The Bishop’s Blog

Speaking at the Guibord Center

Speaking at the Guibord Center

The Guibord Center asked me to speak about spirituality in times like ours. I discussed being mindful about my incoming, my outgoing, and my...

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Daily prayer: Catherine of Siena

Daily prayer: Catherine of Siena

Almighty and everlasting God, who kindled the flame of your love in the heart of your servant Catherine of Siena: Grant unto us the same strength of...

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Nonviolent resistance training

Nonviolent resistance training

The Rev. Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton’s first civil disobedience arrest was in November 1987. As a UC Santa Barbara undergraduate, he was protesting...

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About the Blog

Bishop John Harvey Taylor has devoted himself to promoting reconciliation, transparency, and a stronger financial and organizational foundation for the diocese’s 200 parishes, missions, schools, and other institutions. In those called to leadership in the church, whether lay or ordained, he encourages the exercise of empathy and curiosity as tools of evangelism, to enrich relationships and build new ones across the barriers of difference and prejudice according to race, language, geography, orientation, identification, age, and socioeconomics.

These are some of his reflections: