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The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Abraham Lincoln

Daily prayer: Abraham Lincoln

Almighty God, Abraham Lincoln reckoned your purposes to be just and perfect while struggling with the idea that you would ordain a terrible war to...

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Daily prayer: Bessie Smith

Heavenly God, we give you thanks for the fully lived life of Bessie Smith, who recorded "Downhearted Blues" on this day in 1923. Challenging norms...

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Daily prayer: Henry Lewis

Daily prayer: Henry Lewis

Gracious God, the great orchestrator, we give you thanks for the pioneering artistry of Henry Lewis, born in Los Angeles in 1932, who, as a...

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Daily prayer: Gregory Hines

Daily prayer: Gregory Hines

God of light, light hearts, and light feet, on the 80th anniversary of his birth, we remember our Valentine the late Gregory Hines, dancer, actor,...

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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: