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The Bishop’s Blog

Fellow passengers and rich days

Fellow passengers and rich days

Christmas is a tender time as it is. Our expectations, hopes, and regrets. God coming so close, becoming incarnate, yearning for us, also yearning...

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Daily prayer 12-31-22

Daily prayer 12-31-22

Merciful God, who raised up thy servant Frances Joseph Gaudet to be a champion of the oppressed: Grant that we, encouraged by her example, may...

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Seventh day of Christmas 2022

Seventh day of Christmas 2022

On the seventh day of ChristmasIt's a blessing to recallSeven tots a-toilingSix great GranadiansFive Lambeth friends!Four priests a-partyingThree...

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Friends in the desert

Friends in the desert

Wonderful lunch and conversation in their beautiful home in Indio with Deb Griffith and Sam Griffith, friends from St John Chrysostom Church days....

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Daily prayer 12-30-22

Daily prayer 12-30-22

O God, our strength and our salvation, you called your servant Thomas Becket to be a shepherd of your people and a defender of your church; Keep...

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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: