The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Easter 2023

Apr 9, 2023

Almighty God, who through your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who...

Daily prayer: Holy Saturday

Apr 8, 2023

Holy Saturday is a good day for faithful people in a secularizing time, quiet hours for discerning how to make our way in a Holy Saturday world. In...

Good Friday: Fairness and Justice

Apr 7, 2023

Good Friday is a good day to think about fairness and justice, since our Lord Jesus Christ enjoyed neither at human hands. The gospels don’t provide...

Daily Prayer: Good Friday

Apr 7, 2023

Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands...

Making the Promise, and Meaning It: An Easter Letter

Apr 6, 2023

My siblings in Christ: It is a blessing and joy to extend greetings to you and all whom you love as we prepare ourselves for Easter Day and...

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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: