The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: To forsake sin

Daily prayer: To forsake sin

Merciful God, who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us grace to heed their warnings...

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Daily prayer: Ambros of Milan

Daily prayer: Ambros of Milan

O God, who gave your servant Ambrose grace eloquently to proclaim your righteousness in the great congregation, and fearlessly to bear reproach for...

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Welcoming St. Nicholas, 2024

Welcoming St. Nicholas, 2024

To all the faithful in Christ Jesus in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles: I, John Harvey Taylor, by Divine Providence Bishop of the Diocese of...

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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: