The Bishop’s Blog

Of love and laughter

Of love and laughter

I met Kathy in 1980, the day after Labor Day, at 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan. I was arriving to go to work as a lowly researcher for former...

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Daily prayer: Pure affection

Daily prayer: Pure affection

O God, you have taught us to keep all your commandments by loving you and our neighbor: Grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit, that we may be...

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Daily prayer: Eva Lee Matthews

Daily prayer: Eva Lee Matthews

O God, whose blessed Son became poor that we through his poverty might be rich: Deliver us from an inordinate love of this world, that, inspired by...

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Anniversary art

Anniversary art

On our 22nd anniversary, Kathy, sporting her The CFLC / Prism Restorative Justice colors, and I were among Frannie’s subjects for a portrait.

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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: