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The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer 10-3-22

Daily prayer 10-3-22

O God, the author of peace and lover of concord, to know you is eternal life and to serve you is perfect freedom: Defend us, your humble servants,...

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St. Barnabas’ Church, Pasadena

St. Barnabas’ Church, Pasadena

One day 113 years ago, when William Howard Taft was president, Pasadena Episcopalians of African descent gathered at Mrs. Gloria Weatherton’s house...

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Daily prayer 10-2-22

Daily prayer 10-2-22

Almighty and everlasting God, you are always more ready to hear than we to pray, and to give more than we either desire or deserve: Pour upon us the...

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Daily prayer 10-1-22

Daily prayer 10-1-22

Gracious Father, who called your servant Thérèse to a life of fervent prayer: Give to us that spirit of prayer and zeal for the ministry of the...

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The fate of the earth

The fate of the earth

In June 1962, with the late Tom Hayden as principal scribe, Students for a Democratic Society released the Port Huron Statement, which we correctly...

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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: