An Act of Love, Proper 22 (C) – 2016
“The Chr istian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.” This is according to G.K. Chesterton, who found Christians, including himself, […]
St. John the Baptist (B) – June 25, 2012 John as spiritual massage therapist
Today we celebrate the Nativity of Saint John the Bapt ist. John the Baptist was many things. He was a first-century apocalyptic Jew. He was the last of the Old […]
Who Is This Child?, Christmas Day (III) – 2003
Who is this child born into our midst? It’s the question left before us on Christmas Eve, when the story opens with Jesus’ birth to Mary and Joseph, the angels […]
God Is At The Heart Of All We Have Done: The Liverpool Virginia Youth Pilgrimage
[…] we have worshipped, we have struggled, and we have partied. The best thing about it is that God is at the heart of all we have done. The pilgrimage has […]
Presiding Bishop’s keynote address
Episcopalians have a prayer that names “this fragile earth, our island home.” We’ve been praying it for nearly 40 years, yet many are only beginning to awaken to our wanton […]
Peace and Justice through the Empowerment of Women
[…] The relative absence of women in the aviation industry may not seem obviously related to issues of peace and justice, but the causative attitudes persist. There have certainly been economic […]
S.744 Summary and Episcopal Church Resolutions
[…] touches nearly every corner of our immigration system. At 844 pages the bill covers many issues that the Episcopal Church has supported or opposed as well as many we have […]
Joint Nominating Committee presents last of three essays
[…] The Episcopal Church Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop (JNCPB) has issued the following information. The Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop […]
Women and the Media
Engl ish By: Yunjeong Seol, Diocese of New York (Province II) How many women reporters do you see in the media? How many women in the digital space experienced harassment? Are […]
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
[…] mold, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” 5 When Aaron saw this, he […]
Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Calls on Church to respond to Domestic Poverty
“Healing the worst of the poverty in th is nation is intrinsically connected to restoring human beings to right relationship with the rest of creation.” With those words, Episcopal Church […]
Presiding Bishop’s homily at House of Bishops’ closing Eucharist
[…] eyes,” which we certainly need if we’re serious about valuing our tradition. Our tired and aging eyes mean that we don’t have the ability to rapidly change focus, to look […]
Kansas to Kenya: Building Relationships and a Global Community
[…] commemorate World AIDS Day. Jennifer Allen and Leah from the Masai Bead Collective Jennifer Allen is an Episcopalian from the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas. She has traveled with Kansas to […]
Really? Plant new churches… now?
[…] Officer for Church Planting So… why plant new churches? Why now? As of today, Omicron is still tearing across the country. Three of the four out of town events I’d […]
Entering the Unshakable Kingdom, Proper 16 (C) – 2001
[…] Can you imagine what it’s like to experience an earthquake? The age we live in is an earthquake age, one of those times in history where every foundation starts to […]
Domestic Policy Action Network Newsletter Nov. 2014
[…] Newsletter! This monthly primer will keep you updated on the latest federal legislation addressing national issues related to poverty, criminal justice reform, and the environment. Although this briefing is by […]
Beyond gender categories
[…] of themselves. They bear up under suffering and know happiness, nurture children and care for aging parents. They are as whole as anyone I know. It feels presumptuous of me […]
Uncomfortable, Yet Unafraid, Last Sunday in Epiphany (A) – 2014
The Last Sunday After the Epiphany, Transfiguration Sunday, is also World Mission Sunday. How appropriate. “Mission” is derived from the Latin word mittere, which means “to send.” It entered the Christian […]
Sermon preached at the Society of St. John the Evangelist
[…] youthfulness of spirit he becomes. In him we are confronted by the paradox of an aging body indwelt by increasing interior strength made manifest in a disconcerting spontaneity, graced iconoclasm […]
Presiding Bishop’s address at the TEAM conference: The church moving forward in prophetic witness
Boksburg, March 14, 2007 It is a great joy and delight to be here with you and I am terribly sorry that I could only come to the last two […]