The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Simon and Jude

Daily prayer: Simon and Jude

O God, we thank you for the glorious company of the apostles, and especially on this day for Simon and Jude; and we pray that, as they were faithful...

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Daily prayer: Alfred the Great

Daily prayer: Alfred the Great

O God, who called your servant Alfred to an earthly throne that he might advance your heavenly kingdom, and gave him zeal for your Church and love...

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A friendly World Series wager

A friendly World Series wager

Stop the presses, because the gracious bishop of The Episcopal Diocese of New York, Matthew Heyd (shown here with honorary Angeleno Mary Douglas...

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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: