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GC81: Official Day 2

GC81: Official Day 2

My scrapbook from day two of General Convention in Louisville, including a portrait of Canon Kathy, attending the joint session on the budget, Los...

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Daily prayer: GC81, Day 2

Daily prayer: GC81, Day 2

Gracious God, by your grace you call us into the unity of Christ from our differing backgrounds and experiences. We offer you thanks for the...

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GC81 – Official Day One

GC81 – Official Day One

My scrapbook from the first business day of General Convention in Louisville, beginning with breakfast and some conversation about the art of the...

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Daily prayer: GC81 – Day 1

Daily prayer: GC81 – Day 1

Gracious God, as #GC81 gets officially underway, inspired by the saints before us and enlivened by the saints around us, may we keep the eyes of our...

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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: