The Bishop’s Blog

Amazing people in mid-January

Amazing people in mid-January

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Kathy Hannigan O'Connor's and my friends from our days at St...

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Martin Luther King celebration

Martin Luther King celebration

My scrapbook from the festive two-hour-plus Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles service Sunday afternoon and evening commemorating the life and legacy...

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Daily prayer: Light of the world

Daily prayer: Light of the world

Almighty God, whose Son our Savior Jesus Christ is the light of the world: Grant that your people, illumined by your Word and Sacraments, may shine...

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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: