The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: For the diocese

Daily prayer: For the diocese

O God, by your grace you have called us in this diocese to a goodly fellowship of faith. Bless all our people and all our institutions. Grant that...

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Daily prayer: God the Creator

Daily prayer: God the Creator

Almighty and everlasting God, you made the universe with all its marvelous order, its atoms, worlds, and galaxies, and the infinite complexity of...

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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: