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The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

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...

Best birthday party ever

Best birthday party ever

Younger granddaughter Harriet’s fifth birthday week culminated this afternoon at a remarkable spot tucked away in Anaheim (the only one of its precise kind, the owners told me) where a horde of 30...

Daily prayer: The way of the cross

Daily prayer: The way of the cross

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may...

Campus ministry conference

Campus ministry conference

Chaplains and others offering campus ministry around the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles gathered Tuesday at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park, early in a fateful week. When we began planning this...

Daily prayer: Athanasius of Alexandria

Daily prayer: Athanasius of Alexandria

O Lord, who established your servant Athanasius, through wisdom, in your truth: Grant that we, perceiving the humanity and divinity of your Son Jesus Christ, may follow in his footsteps and ascend...

Daily prayer: Common life

Daily prayer: Common life

O God, you have bound us together in a common life. Help us, in the midst of our struggles for justice and truth, to confront one another without hatred or bitterness, and to work together with...