The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

Daily prayer: Diocese-wide Confirmation

Daily prayer: Diocese-wide Confirmation

Gracious God, we give you thanks for the 30 pilgrims from eight Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles missions and parishes journeying this morning with their family members and friends to St. John's...

Daily prayer: For the children

Daily prayer: For the children

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...

Daily prayer: Julian of Norwich

Daily prayer: Julian of Norwich

Triune God, Father and Mother to us all, who showed your servant Julian revelations of your nurturing and sustaining love: Move our hearts, like hers, to seek you above all things, for in giving us...

Clergy Conference sermon: Julian of Norwich

Clergy Conference sermon: Julian of Norwich

You may remember it from our conversation yesterday, when Dr. Kathy Wilder was helping us with conflict management. Jamie, vicar of The Church of the Epiphany in Oak Park, stood up and talked about...

Clergy Conference, Day 3

Clergy Conference, Day 3

My album from the third and closing day of Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles clergy conference.

Daily prayer: Clergy Conference, Day 2

Daily prayer: Clergy Conference, Day 2

Gracious God, amid the paradoxes and perplexities of leadership in an anxious age, as the bishops, deacons, and priests of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles continue our annual clergy conference,...

The Mother’s Union at St. Mark’s, Van Nuys

The Mother’s Union at St. Mark’s, Van Nuys

At the Ugandan Community Church in Van Nuys, the Mothers Union is a pillar of extended church family. Founded in 1908 in British-colonized Uganda, at the UCC, part of the rich ministry of Saint...

Daily prayer: For Clergy Conference

Daily prayer: For Clergy Conference

Gracious God, amid the paradoxes and perplexities of leadership in an anxious age, as the bishops, deacons, and priests of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles gather this week for our annual clergy...

Daily prayer: Love

Daily prayer: Love

O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may...

Daily prayer: For those who work while others sleep

Daily prayer: For those who work while others sleep

O God, your unfailing providence sustains the world we live in and the life we live: Watch over those, both night and day, who work while others sleep, and grant that we may never forget that our...