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The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

Lunch with Rick Perlstein

Lunch with Rick Perlstein

Historian and journalist Rick Perlstein is a progressive expert in conservative candidates and presidents, beginning with Barry Goldwater, who ran unsuccessfully in 1964, through Ronald Reagan. His...

Daily prayer: Arthur Ashe

Daily prayer: Arthur Ashe

Gracious God, we give you thanks for the life and witness of Arthur Ashe, who died on this day in 1993. To this day the only man of African descent to win the singles titles at the U.S. Open,...

Daily prayer: Trayvon Martin

Daily prayer: Trayvon Martin

Gracious God, Trayvon Martin, who would have turned 30 today, was nine when he saved the life of his father, Tracy, by dragging him from their burning apartment. You knew Trayvon's courage and his...

Daily prayer: Rosa Parks

Daily prayer: Rosa Parks

God of justice and love, on the 112th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks, who had been working and advocating for civil rights for 12 years in the Montgomery NAACP before choosing her...

Daily prayer: Grant us your presence and beauty

Daily prayer: Grant us your presence and beauty

O God, whom saints and angels delight to worship in heaven: Be ever present with your servants who seek through art and music to perfect the praises offered by your people on earth; and grant to...

Episcopal Relief and Development visiting the diocese

Episcopal Relief and Development visiting the diocese

Robert K. Radke experienced 2004’s historic typhoon season as the breath of the Holy Spirit. A China hand with an Oxford Ph.D, he’d held a series of top posts at the Asia Society, which builds bonds...

Daily prayer: For pure hearts

Daily prayer: For pure hearts

Almighty and everliving God, we humbly pray that, as your only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple, so we may be presented to you with pure and clean hearts by Jesus Christ our Lord;...

Daily prayer: Black History Month

Daily prayer: Black History Month

Creator, we lift up and thank you for our Black siblings who have shaped history. We pray that the learning happening this month in schools, homes and workplaces will be meaningful and deep-rooted....

Looking to the interests of others and DEI

Looking to the interests of others and DEI

“Let each of you look not to your own interests,” Paul wrote to the Philippians, “but to the interests of others.” Then and now, the greatest challenge for the Christian, no matter how pious, is...

Daily prayer: Guide us towards peace

Daily prayer: Guide us towards peace

O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and...

IRIS Emergency Fund

IRIS Emergency Fund

This week the government ordered our Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles refugee resettlement agency, IRIS Interfaith Refugee & Immigration Service, to suspend all resettlement work, including for...

Amazing people in the new year

Amazing people in the new year

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles including my classmate the Rt. Rev. DeDe Duncan-Probe, bishop of Central New York (at right), who met with senior staff...