The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Thomas the Apostle

Dec 21, 2023

Everliving God, who strengthened your apostle Thomas with firm and certain faith in your Son's resurrection: Grant us so perfectly and without doubt...

Amazing people in the week before Christmas

Dec 21, 2023

The week before Christmas, you meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including the Very Rev. Kay Sylvester, for...

Daily prayer: Katharina von Bora

Dec 20, 2023

Almighty God, who called your servant Katharina von Bora from a cloister to work for the reform of your church: Grant that, for the sake of your...

The promise of the Nativity: A Christmas message

Dec 19, 2023

Christmas 2023 My siblings in in Christ: May you and yours have a blessed Christmas and New Year. In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the Ghost...

Daily prayer: A collect for guidance

Dec 19, 2023

Heavenly God, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares...

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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: