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The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Thecla

Daily prayer: Thecla

God of liberating power, who called Thecla to proclaim the gospel and did not permit any obstacle or peril to inhibit her: Empower courageous...

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Daily prayer: Deaconesses

Daily prayer: Deaconesses

O God of love, we bless you for calling and equipping the deaconesses of The Episcopal Church, who, before the Church had faced up to the historic...

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Daily prayer: Matthew

Daily prayer: Matthew

We thank you, heavenly God, for the witness of your apostle and evangelist Matthew to the Gospel of your Son our Savior; and we pray that, after his...

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Daily prayer: God’s creation

Daily prayer: God’s creation

Almighty and everlasting God, you made the universe with all its marvelous order, its atoms, worlds, and galaxies, and the infinite complexity of...

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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: