The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

Daily prayer: For a peaceful election

Daily prayer: For a peaceful election

Almighty and everlasting God, the sweep of human history discloses that only free, fair, and peaceful elections, and our civic covenant to abide by their outcomes, can contain your people’s unruly...

Daily prayer: For surefooted service to God

Daily prayer: For surefooted service to God

Almighty and merciful God, it is only by your gift that your faithful people offer you true and laudable service: Grant that we may run without stumbling to obtain your heavenly promises; through...

Amazing People at the start of November

Amazing People at the start of November

You meet the most amazing people around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, including the Most Rev. Sean Rowe, invested today as presiding bishop, who was in town Tuesday for a bishops’ listening...

Daily prayer: For the faithful departed

Daily prayer: For the faithful departed

O God, the Maker and Redeemer of all believers: Grant to the faithful departed the unsearchable benefits of the passion of your Son; that on the day of his appearing they may be manifested as your...

Daily prayer: For Godly living

Daily prayer: For Godly living

Almighty God, you have knit together your elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of your Son Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow your blessed saints in all virtuous and...

Help Bloy House this Halloween

Help Bloy House this Halloween

What's really scary this Halloween in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles is imagining our community without the affordable means of local practical and theological training for our thousands of...

Daily prayer: All Hallows Eve

Daily prayer: All Hallows Eve

Lord, tonight, we will face all that most concerns us: our fears, the shadowed places of the mind; the coming of winter darkness; the cold thin place between waking and sleep. We call to mind the...

Visiting St. Paul’s, Lancaster

Visiting St. Paul’s, Lancaster

When the people of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Lancaster first gathered for prayer a hundred years ago in the offices of a local newspaper publisher, scientists still believed our galaxy...

Daily prayer: For righteousness and love

Daily prayer: For righteousness and love

Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawn but the sword of righteousness, no strength known but the strength of love: So mightily spread abroad your Spirit, that all peoples may be...

Daily prayer: For love, worship, and service of God

Daily prayer: For love, worship, and service of God

O God, whom the whole heavens adore: Let the whole earth also worship you, all nations obey you, all tongues confess and bless you, and men and women everywhere love you and serve you in peace;...