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The Bishop’s Blog

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. The only man of African descent to win the...

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Daily prayer: Trayvon Martin

Daily prayer: Trayvon Martin

Gracious God, Trayvon Martin, who would have turned 31 today, was nine when he saved the life of his father, Tracy, by dragging him from their...

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Daily prayer: Rosa Parks

Daily prayer: Rosa Parks

God of justice and love, on the 113th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks, who had been working and advocating for civil rights for 12 years in...

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Daily prayer: Louis Armstrong

Daily prayer: Louis Armstrong

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...

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About the Blog

Bishop John Harvey Taylor has devoted himself to promoting reconciliation, transparency, and a stronger financial and organizational foundation for the diocese’s 200 parishes, missions, schools, and other institutions. In those called to leadership in the church, whether lay or ordained, he encourages the exercise of empathy and curiosity as tools of evangelism, to enrich relationships and build new ones across the barriers of difference and prejudice according to race, language, geography, orientation, identification, age, and socioeconomics.

These are some of his reflections: