The Bishop’s Blog

Christmas Eve sermon at St. John’s Cathedral

Dec 25, 2023

We return to Bethlehem at Christmastime to hear the story again and to let it boggle our minds. The first miracle is how God uses hapless imperial...

My two-year-old Christmas Eve ode to gift wrapping

Dec 24, 2023

When I wrap family Christmas presents, I think of my mother, Jean, who taught me when I was about ten. Now there are YouTube videos. On the long...

Daily prayer: Fourth Sunday of Advent

Dec 24, 2023

Purify our conscience, Almighty God, by your daily visitation, that your Son Jesus Christ, at his coming, may find in us a mansion prepared for...

Daily prayer: For clergy

Dec 23, 2023

Almighty and everlasting God, from whom cometh every good and perfect gift: Send down upon our bishops, deacons, and priests, and upon the...

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...

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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: