The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Marina the Monk

Daily prayer: Marina the Monk

Give us grace, Lord God, to refrain from judgments about the sins of others; that, like your servant Marina the Monk, we may hold fast to the path...

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A reminiscence on Fathers Day

A reminiscence on Fathers Day

My most vivid memory of my father, Harvey, is him driving around the block three times on the way home after taking me for a haircut. I was nine or...

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A reminiscence on Fathers Day

Daily prayer: Father’s Day

Keep, O Lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we (and especially, this day, we fathers) may...

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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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EfM Graduation

EfM Graduation

My scrapbook from today’s EfM Education for Ministry graduation ceremony at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park. We honored 21 students from ten Episcopal...

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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: