The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

Homeboy Industries, and helping how we can

Homeboy Industries, and helping how we can

Fr. Greg Boyle, who founded Homeboy Industries over 40 years ago, teared up a little last night at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. He was telling us a story about Danny, a former...

Daily prayer: James the Just

Daily prayer: James the Just

Grant, O God, that, following the example of your servant James the Just, brother of our Lord, your Church may give itself continually to prayer and to the reconciliation of all who are at variance...

Daily prayer: For unity and grace in the Fall Classic

Daily prayer: For unity and grace in the Fall Classic

Gracious God, may the fall classic pitting coastal elites against one another be a sacrament of unity in a nation starved for grace; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. (Photo: Along my shortcut...

Daily Prayer: For strength in faith

Daily Prayer: For strength in faith

Gracious God, you see your children growing up in an unsteady and confusing world: Show them that your ways give more life than the ways of the world, and that following you is better than chasing...

Amazing People in late October

Amazing People in late October

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Dr. Anne Willoughby of New York, a candidate for taking vows with our St. Paul’s Commons neighbors the...

Dinner with friends, physics, and Costco

Dinner with friends, physics, and Costco

If you saw “Oppenheimer,” or know more about physics than I, you know that Enrico Fermi was the brilliant Italian physicist who’s said to have taken bets on whether the Trinity test in 1945 would...

Daily prayer: For rest in God’s presence

Daily prayer: For rest in God’s presence

Be present, O merciful God, and protect us through the hours of this night, so that we who are wearied by the changes and chances of this life may rest in your eternal changelessness; through Jesus...

Visiting St. Joseph’s, Buena Park

Visiting St. Joseph’s, Buena Park

We were about 35 strong this morning at St. Joseph's Episcopal Church, Buena Park. As usual, its gracious rector, the Rev. Dr. Cynthia Voien, had designed a beautiful liturgy and seen to every...

Daily prayer: For steadfast faith

Daily prayer: For steadfast faith

Almighty and everlasting God, in Christ you have revealed your glory among the nations: Preserve the works of your mercy, that your Church throughout the world may persevere with steadfast faith in...

Daily prayer: Henry Martyn

Daily prayer: Henry Martyn

O God of the nations, who gave to your servant Henry Martyn a longing to share your Gospel with all peoples; Inspire the church in our own day with that said desire, that we may be eager to commit...

Daily prayer: Ignatius of Antioch

Daily prayer: Ignatius of Antioch

Almighty God, we praise your Name for your bishop and martyr Ignatius of Antioch, who offered himself as grain to be ground by the teeth of wild beasts that he might present to you the pure bread of...

Amazing People in Mid-October

Amazing People in Mid-October

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including Randall Heyn-Lamb, for a hallway conversation about the war in Gaza and Lebanon and the deep suffering being...