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The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Muhammad Ali

Daily prayer: Muhammad Ali

God of all, who, in calling us each by name, offers respect both to the names we are given and those we choose: On this date in 1964, we remember...

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Daily prayer: Nat King Cole

Daily prayer: Nat King Cole

Gracious God, whose face we see in every flower, as the song goes, and whose eyes are in the stars above: We give you thanks for the artistry and...

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Daily prayer: Katherine Johnson

Daily prayer: Katherine Johnson

Gracious God, whose careful calculations hold a whole universe in balance: We give you thanks for mathematician and U.S. space program pioneer...

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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: