The Bishop’s Blog

The Bishop’s Blog: Requiem mass in Hollywood for Queen Elizabeth

Sep 20, 2022

My album from last night’s moving requiem mass for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth at St. Thomas the Apostle Hollywood, capping a day of thanksgiving...

The Bishop’s Blog: Korean ministry, school at St. James’ Church, Los Angeles

Sep 20, 2022

During the dark days of economic downturn in 2008, the Rev.John Dongjin Kim, a priest at St. James' in the City Episcopal Church, realized that more...

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 9-19-22

Sep 19, 2022

Almighty God, who gave your servant Theodore of Tarsus gifts of grace and wisdom to establish unity where there had been division and order where...

The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 9-18-22

Sep 18, 2022

Grant us, Lord, not to be anxious about earthly things, but to love things heavenly; and even now, while we are placed among things that are passing...

The Bishop’s Blog: Consecration of Bishop Phyllis Spiegel of Utah

Sep 17, 2022

My album from this morning’s ordination and consecration of the Rt. Rev. Phyllis Spiegel as 12th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah

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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: