The Bishop’s Blog

Amazing people in the diocese

Amazing people in the diocese

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including the Rt. Rev. Daniel G. P. Gutiérrez, bishop of Pennsylvania,...

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Remembering the Rev. John Phalen

Remembering the Rev. John Phalen

The Rev. Dr. John Phalen, who died in October, had two doctorates and multiple vocations — priest, Air Force chaplain, executive director of one of...

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Daily prayer: Nicholas Ferrar

Daily prayer: Nicholas Ferrar

Lord God, make us worthy of your perfect love; that, with your deacon Nicholas Ferrar and his household, we may rule ourselves according to your...

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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: