The Bishop’s Blog

GLEAM Garden Party

GLEAM Garden Party

My scrapbook from this afternoon’s GLEAM garden party at your episcopal residence in Pasadena, an annual celebration hosted by the Episcopal Diocese...

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Commissioning of lay ministers

Commissioning of lay ministers

Pat Holt has attended St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Pomona since birth. She’s done everything around campus that a layperson can. In the seventies,...

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Daily prayer: Providence

Daily prayer: Providence

O God, your never-failing providence sets in order all things both in heaven and earth: Put away from us, we entreat you, all hurtful things, and...

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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: