The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Justin Martyr

Daily prayer: Justin Martyr

O God, who has given your church wisdom and revealed to it deep and secret things: Grant that we, like your servant Justin and in union with his...

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Amazing people at the end of May

Amazing people at the end of May

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including deacon, lay, and priest colleagues from the center of our...

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Daily prayer: The Visitation

Daily prayer: The Visitation

God in heaven, by your grace the virgin mother of your incarnate Son was blessed in bearing him, but still more blessed in keeping your word: Grant...

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Daily prayer: Morning prayer

Daily prayer: Morning prayer

O God, our eternal sovereign, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong...

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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: