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The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Ephrem the Syrian

Daily prayer: Ephrem the Syrian

Pour out upon us, O Lord, that same Spirit by which your deacon Ephrem declared the mysteries of faith in sacred song; that, with gladdened hearts,...

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A baptism on Pentecost

A baptism on Pentecost

So imagine Kathy’s joy and mine on the Day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit indeed came down, enabling me to mediate the sacrament of Holy Baptism...

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Daily prayer: Columba of Iona

Daily prayer: Columba of Iona

O God, who by the preaching of your servant Columba caused the light of the Gospel to shine in Scotland: Grant, we pray, that, remembering his life...

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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: