The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Hugh of Lincoln

Daily prayer: Hugh of Lincoln

Holy God, who endowed your servant Hugh of Lincoln with wise and cheerful boldness, and taught him to commend the discipline of holy life to kings...

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Daily prayer: Herman of Alaska

Daily prayer: Herman of Alaska

Almighty God, who raised up your servant Herman to be a light in the world, and to preach the Gospel to the people of Alaska: Illuminate our hearts,...

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Daily prayer: The episcopate

Daily prayer: The episcopate

We give you thanks, O Lord our God, for your goodness in bestowing upon this church the gift of the episcopate; and we pray that, joined together in...

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‘The Holdovers’

‘The Holdovers’

A scene showing a New England prep school chapel in the early seventies, filled with distracted boys in their coats and ties? Been there, done that....

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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: