The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Lydia

Daily prayer: Lydia

Eternal God, who gives good gifts to all people, and who grants the spirit of generosity: Give us, we pray you, hearts always open to hear your...

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Daily prayer: Pentecost

Daily prayer: Pentecost

O God, who on this day taught the hearts of your faithful people by sending to them the light of your Holy Spirit: Grant us by the same Spirit to...

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Chet Talton Day

Chet Talton Day

Siblings in Christ – fellow friends in Chet - on behalf of a grateful diocese, I offer blessings and thanks to the Program Group on Black Ministry...

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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: