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The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Gregory Hines

Daily prayer: Gregory Hines

God of light, light hearts, and light feet, on the 79th anniversary of his birth, we remember the late Gregory Hines, dancer, actor, singer, and...

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Absalom Jones Day service

Absalom Jones Day service

In a bracing sermon at St. Paul's Commons, Echo Park today, as we marked the feast day of Absalom Jones, the first African-American ordained in The...

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Daily prayer: Absalom Jones

Daily prayer: Absalom Jones

Set us free, heavenly God, from every bond of prejudice and fear; that, honoring the steadfast courage of your servant Absalom Jones, we may show...

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Daily prayer: Nelson Mandela

Daily prayer: Nelson Mandela

Gracious God, your Son promised that everything freed on earth would be freed in heaven and warned that things bound on earth might be bound in...

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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: