The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: for strength

Daily prayer: for strength

Strengthen us, O Lord, by your grace, that in your might we may overcome all spiritual enemies, and with pure hearts serve you; through Jesus Christ...

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Daily prayer: For Lent

Daily prayer: For Lent

Grant to your people, Lord, grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow you,...

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Amazing people in mid-February

Amazing people in mid-February

You meet the most amazing people around St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Archbishop Hovnan Derderian...

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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: