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The Bishop’s Blog

Solomon John Mattar

Solomon John Mattar

That terrible morning in June 1967, not even the purported tomb of Jesus Christ could keep them safe. Solomon John Mattar, a Palestinian Christian,...

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Amazing People

Amazing People

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Bishop-elect Antonio Gallardo L., at the latest of our...

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Desert Journeys Lenten quiet day

Desert Journeys Lenten quiet day

During our Lenten quiet day on Wednesday at the Desert Journeys Retreat Center in Twentynine Palms, I was in the library, reading Elizabeth Day’s...

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Heresy in The Pentagon

Heresy in The Pentagon

The Pentagon is a hotbed of heresy. This week Hegseth ridiculed rules of engagement that govern the military’s use of deadly force. Operatically a...

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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: