The Bishop’s Blog

RIP: Sandra Day O’Connor

RIP: Sandra Day O’Connor

I join with a full and grateful heart in the tributes to Episcopalian Sandra Day O’Connor. A knowledgeable friend told me today she wouldn’t admit...

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Daily prayer: Andrew the Apostle

Daily prayer: Andrew the Apostle

Almighty God, who gave such grace to your apostle Andrew that he readily obeyed the call of your Son Jesus Christ, and brought his brother with him:...

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RIP: Henry Kissinger

RIP: Henry Kissinger

Negotiating with Henry Kissinger in April 1994, I understood how his North Vietnamese counterpart Lê Đức Thọ may have felt at the Paris peace talks....

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Remembering Charlie Munger

Remembering Charlie Munger

One of the nicest things anyone ever said to me was when Charlie Munger allowed that using church property to build housing for struggling commuter...

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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: