The Bishop’s Blog

Passover Shabbat

Passover Shabbat

My scrapbook from Passover Shabbat last night at Ahavat Torah, which nests at St. Bede's Episcopal Church in Mar Vista thanks to the hospitality of...

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Daily prayer: Zita

Daily prayer: Zita

Merciful God, who has given to us all things necessary for life and godliness; Grant that we, like your servant Zita, may be faithful in the...

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Protests and priorities

Protests and priorities

Universities under siege over the Gaza war bring it all back for us Vietnam-era college-educated boomers. Back then, you could be for Vietnamese...

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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: