The Bishop's Blog
Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor
Daily prayer: Give us a zeal for justice
Jan 29, 2025
Lord God Almighty, who has made all the peoples of the earth for your glory, to serve you in freedom and in peace: Give to the people of our country a zeal for justice and the strength of...
Being a sanctuary diocese
Jan 28, 2025
As reports come in about ICE raids around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, I write to remind my siblings in Christ that, by act of diocesan convention in December 2016, we are a sanctuary...
Daily prayer: Take away our hatred
Jan 28, 2025
O God, you made us in your own image and redeemed us through Jesus your Son: Look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down...
Daily prayer: John Chrysostom
Jan 27, 2025
O God, who gave your servant John Chrysostom grace eloquently to proclaim your righteousness in the great congregation, and fearlessly to bear reproach for the honor of your Name: Mercifully grant...
The witness of the Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
Jan 26, 2025
You never know what you’ll hear during worship. I think about that day in the synagogue in Nazareth. Folks probably hadn’t been expecting anything special. Just another sabbath in a subjugated...
Daily prayer: To answer readily
Jan 26, 2025
Give us grace, O Lord, to answer readily the call of our Savior Jesus Christ and proclaim to all people the Good News of his salvation, that we and the whole world may perceive the glory of his...
Daily prayer: A Holy Saturday between loss and rebuilding
Jan 25, 2025
Holy and ever-present God, during Holy Week, on Holy Saturday, followers of Jesus Christ sometimes experience a sensation between Easter exultation and the unconsolable loss of Good Friday. Around...
Hope in the aftermath of the Eaton Fire
Jan 25, 2025
Even as skies lowered, promising rain and threatening mudslides, hope arose this holy Saturday in the aftermath of the Eaton fire. In conjunction with nearby Vintage Church, All Saints Episcopal...
Caring for everyone amid catastrophe
Jan 24, 2025
With all that’s been going on, I felt a little more worried than usual when Kathy left Friday for a couple of days on grandma duty in San Diego. What if something happened during her drive? It’s...
Daily prayer: To make no peace with oppression
Jan 24, 2025
Almighty God, who created us in your image: Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression; and, that we may reverently use our freedom, help us to employ it...
Daily prayer: Comfort and protection for those in need
Jan 23, 2025
Gracious and loving God, we beseech you to continue to comfort those around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles still reeling from the Eaton and Palisades fires; to throw a blanket of protection...
‘Here am I; send me!’ A pastoral letter from Bishop Taylor on the fires and our times
Jan 21, 2025
God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness.' Gen. 1:26a When you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. Isaiah 43:2 And this is...