The Bishop's Blog
Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor
Daily prayer: William Tyndale
Oct 5, 2025
Reveal to us your saving word, O God, that like your servant William Tyndale we might hear its call to repentance and new life. Plant in our hearts that same consuming passion to bring the...
Daily prayer: Grace to ask
Oct 4, 2025
O God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment, and light rises up in darkness for the godly: Grant us, in all our doubts and uncertainties, the grace to ask what you would have us to do, that the...
Amazing people
Oct 3, 2025
You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including at the Saints Alive lunch and speaker program at The Parish of St. Matthew - The Episcopal Church in Pacific...
Daily prayer: Sarah Mullally
Oct 3, 2025
Gracious God, we offer our prayers of thanksgiving and praise as Sarah is called as the first woman to be archbishop of Canterbury. Global Anglicans are united in the way we pray but not the way we...
Daily prayer: Jerome
Sep 30, 2025
O God, who gave us the holy Scriptures as a light to shine upon our path: Grant us, after the example of your servant Jerome, so to learn of you according to your holy Word, that we may find the...
Visiting St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Sep 29, 2025
St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Winnetka is one of the most lovingly curated public spaces I've ever seen. In his 11th year as vicar, after promising Bishop Jon Bruno just three years,...
Neighborhood Youth Association
Sep 29, 2025
As part of the amazing Neighborhood Youth Association team, site director Sonia Hernandez has been helping children of immigrant families on the west side of Los Angeles make it to four-year...
Daily prayer: Art and music
Sep 29, 2025
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...
Daily prayer: Mercy and pity
Sep 28, 2025
O God, you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: Grant us the fullness of your grace, that we, running to obtain your promises, may become partakers of your heavenly...
Requiem or Renaissance
Sep 27, 2025
It takes courage to be here this morning. I am in awe, being in your company. Devoted leaders of congregations you love. Devoted colleagues undertaking the ministry of walking with you these 18...
Daily prayer: for mission and parish families
Sep 27, 2025
Almighty and everliving God, ruler of all things in heaven and earth, hear our prayers for all the mission and parish families in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. Strengthen the faithful,...
Daily prayer: Lead us away from prejudice
Sep 24, 2025
O God of all, whose Son commanded us to love our enemies: Lead them and us from prejudice to truth: deliver them and us from hatred, cruelty, and revenge; and in your good time enable us all to...










