The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Joseph

Daily prayer: Joseph

O God, who from the family of your servant David raised up Joseph to be the guardian of your incarnate Son and the spouse of his virgin mother: Give...

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Daily prayer: Fifth week in Lent

Daily prayer: Fifth week in Lent

Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire...

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Visiting Grace Church, Glendora

Visiting Grace Church, Glendora

When I visited Grace Episcopal Church in Glendora two years ago, the Rev. Susan Scranton, rector since 1997 and a concert pianist, was playing...

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An interfaith Iftar

An interfaith Iftar

On Sunday evening, the seventh day of Ramadan, I was blessed to be invited to join what felt like a family of about 40 at an interfaith Iftar, or...

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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: