The Bishop’s Blog

A 50th wedding anniversary celebration

Dec 22, 2023

Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles and St John Chrysostom Church stalwarts Loreen and Andy Guilford celebrated their 50th anniversary Thursday evening...

‘A Jazzy Christmas Carol’ at St. Barnabas’, Eagle Rock

Dec 22, 2023

After preview performances in St. Louis and Santa Clarita, “A Jazzy Christmas Carol” had its world premiere tonight at St. Barnabas Eagle Rock — and...

Daily prayer: For those who travel

Dec 22, 2023

Heavenly God, whose glory fills the whole creation, and whose presence we find wherever we go: Preserve those who travel during this Christmas...

Daily prayer: Thomas the Apostle

Dec 21, 2023

Everliving God, who strengthened your apostle Thomas with firm and certain faith in your Son's resurrection: Grant us so perfectly and without doubt...

Amazing people in the week before Christmas

Dec 21, 2023

The week before Christmas, you meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including the Very Rev. Kay Sylvester, for...

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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: