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The Bishop's Blog

Thoughts and reflections from Bishop John Harvey Taylor

Dents and dings on the road

Dents and dings on the road

Next time you’re driving, notice how many cars have dents and dings. I didn’t until recently, after Kathy and I fell victim to highway slobbery. We were minding our own business at a red light on...

Daily prayer: Guide the nations into justice

Daily prayer: Guide the nations into justice

Almighty God, guide the nations of the world into the way of justice and truth, and establish among them that peace which is the fruit of righteousness, that they may become the kingdom of the Lord...

Daily prayer: To know you more truely

Daily prayer: To know you more truely

Almighty and everlasting God, you made the universe with all its marvelous order, its atoms, worlds, and galaxies, and the infinite complexity of living creatures: Grant that, as we probe the...

Daily prayer: Take away our arrogance and hate

Daily prayer: Take away our arrogance and hate

O God, you made us in your own image and redeemed us through Jesus your Son: Look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down...

Daily prayer: Memorial Day

Daily prayer: Memorial Day

Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping those who serve in our armed forces at home and abroad. As we remember this Memorial Day all those who sacrificed themselves for our...

Daily prayer: Pour love into our hearts

Daily prayer: Pour love into our hearts

O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may...

Daily prayer: Jackson Kemper

Daily prayer: Jackson Kemper

O God, who sent your son Jesus Christ to preach peace to those who are far off and to those who are near: Grant that we, like your servant Jackson Kemper, may proclaim the Gospel in our own day,...

Leslie Knope leadership

Leslie Knope leadership

Because she doesn’t ever give up on the people she loves, Leslie Knope, the small-town bureaucrat from “Parks and Recreation,” performed by series producer Amy Poehler, is now, for me, the Platonic...

Daily prayer: To always behold Christ’s glory

Daily prayer: To always behold Christ’s glory

Most Merciful God, who blessed your servant Helena with such grace and devotion to you that she venerated the very footsteps of our Savior; Grant unto us the same grace that, aided by her prayers...

Visting the Rev. Canon Paul D Edwards

Visting the Rev. Canon Paul D Edwards

When he was five, the Rev. Canon Paul D Edwards, now 93, looked at a tree and saw that it was alive with light and life. He picked up a branch, and it shone like the sun. When he came to Christ as a...