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The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: For guidance

Daily prayer: For guidance

O God, because without you we are not able to please you, mercifully grant that your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts;...

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Daily prayer: Day of rest

Daily prayer: Day of rest

Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we,...

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Daily prayer: Cyprian

Daily prayer: Cyprian

Almighty God, who gave to your servant Cyprian boldness to confess the Name of our Savior Jesus Christ before the rulers of this world and courage...

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Support for Long Beach Cares

Support for Long Beach Cares

If you're in Long Beach, or, like everybody, you love Long Beach, please support this year's Long Beach Cares drive by making a gift in support of...

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Daily prayer: John Henry Hobart

Daily prayer: John Henry Hobart

Revive your church, Lord God of hosts, whenever it falls into complacency and sloth, by raising up devoted leaders like your servant John Henry...

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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: