The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

Daily prayer: To be a light in difficult times

Daily prayer: To be a light in difficult times

Almighty God, you sent Jesus not when things were going well but to light your people through impossibly difficult times. You gave me the gifts of being and of your constant love and ask only that I...

Daily prayer: Moving hearts to justice and peace

Daily prayer: Moving hearts to justice and peace

Grant, O God, that your holy and life-giving Spirit may so move every human heart and especially the hearts of the people of this land, that barriers which divide us may crumble, suspicions...

Use both hands

Use both hands

“Use both hands.” When the Anaheim Angels won the World Series in 2002, just for a moment Angel Darin Erstad was ten again. He got the final out after the Giants’ Kenny Lofton hit a pop fly to...

Daily prayer: For a peaceful election

Daily prayer: For a peaceful election

Almighty and everlasting God, the sweep of human history discloses that only free, fair, and peaceful elections, and our civic covenant to abide by their outcomes, can contain your people’s unruly...

Daily prayer: For surefooted service to God

Daily prayer: For surefooted service to God

Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your gift that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; through...

Amazing People at the start of November

Amazing People at the start of November

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including the Most Rev. Sean Rowe, invested today as presiding bishop, who was in town Tuesday for a bishops’ listening...

Daily prayer: For the faithful departed

Daily prayer: For the faithful departed

O God, the Maker and Redeemer of all believers: Grant to the faithful departed the unsearchable benefits of the passion of your Son; that on the day of his appearing they may be manifested as your...

Daily prayer: For Godly living

Daily prayer: For Godly living

Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and...