The Bishop’s Blog

Lambeth and London

Lambeth and London

Meeting for an hour on Thursday morning at Lambeth Palace, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and I compared notes on affordable housing,...

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Daily prayer: John of the Cross

Daily prayer: John of the Cross

Judge eternal, throned in splendor, who gave John of the Cross strength of purpose and faith that sustained him even through the dark night of the...

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Daily prayer: Common life

Daily prayer: Common life

In “Notting Hill,” Hugh Grant plays the owner of a travel bookshop into which a famous actor portrayed by Julia Roberts walks, engendering an...

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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: