The Bishop's Blog
Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor
Daily prayer: Guide and govern us
Jul 16, 2025
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 and occupations of our life we may not forget you,...
Daily prayer: Open our eyes
Jul 15, 2025
O heavenly God, who has filled the world with beauty: Open our eyes to behold your gracious hand in all your works; that, rejoicing in your whole creation, we may learn to serve you with gladness;...
Berta and Luis
Jul 14, 2025
“Pero es solo un niño.” He’s just a child. That was what Berta said right before she stepped into the path of a bullet — right before she threw her arms around a 17-year-old stranger and quite...
Daily prayer: Argula von Grumbach
Jul 14, 2025
Almighty God, who gave your servant Argula von Grumbach a spirit of wisdom and power to love your Word and to boldly draw others to its truth: Pour out that same spirit upon us, that we, knowing and...
Visiting Grace Episcopal Church, Moreno Valley
Jul 13, 2025
Valerie Maxwell, for these five years the bishop’s warden of Grace Episcopal Church in Moreno Valley, and I stood bathed in Inland Empire sunshine after services today and vowed to do all we could...
Good Samaritan
Jul 13, 2025
“Good Samaritan” falls from the tongue so easily that we forget that, in Jesus’s time, Samaritans were considered heretics. They didn’t worship at the temple in Jerusalem. The high priests said they...
Daily prayer: To faithfully understand and accomplish
Jul 13, 2025
O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to...
Amazing People
Jul 12, 2025
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Parry Popejoy and Sean Wagener, partners for 26 years and members of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal...
Friends of the Pasadena Public Library summer used book sale
Jul 12, 2025
A couple planning to move within a year should stay away from the Friends of the Pasadena Public Library’s summer used book sale. Kathy and I are in our dispensationalist era. Although I once loved...
Daily prayer: Bless those who work in the fields
Jul 12, 2025
Almighty God, we thank you for making the earth fruitful, so that it might produce what is needed for life: Bless those who work in the fields; give us seasonable weather; and grant that we may all...
Daily prayer: For total devotion
Jul 10, 2025
O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be devoted to you with our whole heart, and united to one...
An ethics question
Jul 10, 2025
Here’s a Christian ethics question. Say a domestic terrorist uses a gun to kill innocents. Trump has made savage cuts in U.S. foreign aid, knowing his actions, if not reversed, could result in the...