The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: Holy One, help us

Daily prayer: Holy One, help us

Holy One, Help us, Spark hope; Seek peace; Defend justice; Fight oppression; Defeat hate; Foster holiness; Live love. Amen. — Bishop Deon K. Johnson...

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Daily prayer: For guidance

Daily prayer: For guidance

Heavenly God, in you we live and move and have our being: We humbly pray you so to guide and govern us by your Holy Spirit, that in all the cares...

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Daily prayer: James the Just

Daily prayer: James the Just

Grant, O God, that, following the example of your servant James the Just, brother of our Lord, your Church may give itself continually to prayer and...

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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: