Quincy Diocesan Synod: Remigius

  Remigius was born around 437 or 438 in what is now France, into a Christian family.  His father was a nobleman, and his mother the daughter of a bishop.  From his youth he was known for his holiness and learning, and when there was need for a bishop in Rheims, the people of the […]

ELCA Conference of Bishops: St. Michael and All Angels

  I’m no angel, but I have a message of greeting for you.  I don’t think I need to say, “fear not” when I report that Episcopalians are praying for their Lutheran brothers and sisters all over the Church, from Taiwan to Europe, and from Ecuador and Colombia to Alaska.  We rejoice in our full […]

St. George’s Cathedral: Proper 21

  Exodus 33:12-23; Psalm 99; Philippians 2:1-13; Matthew 21:28-32 Where have you seen the glory of God passing by?  Have you ever been up on the mountain, like Moses, awestruck at the wonder of what God is up to?  I keep hearing that climbing up Table Mountain, or taking the cable car up there, is […]

Catedral del Buen Señor, Quito

Proper 20A

It is very good for brothers and sisters to live together in peace – even if it doesn’t happen very often. Human life has been marked by conflict since Cain and Abel. Their conflict was about whose religious offering was better – sheep or crops. They were competing for God’s recognition. Most conflict originates in […]

House of Bishops Opening Eucharist

  James Chisholm was a priest in tidewater Virginia in the mid 19th century.  He did his work in the context of a slave-holding economy.  The whole region was subject to the scourges of insect- and water-borne disease.  The two most significant of those diseases, yellow fever and malaria 1, were both introduced to the […]

September 11, 2011: Micah 4:1-5; Matt 5:43-48

  We gather here today in peace, yearning and hoping that peace may come in this land and across the world.  We gather to remember those who died violently and senselessly ten years ago.  We gather to reflect on lives lost, families devastated, and hopes dashed.  And still we gather in hope for hearts that […]

September 11, 2011: Proper 19A

  What’s it like to be attacked?  And what governs our response?  How do we heal and find our way forward? I wasn’t here ten years ago, but I do have a sense of how confusing and crazy-making a sudden physical attack can be.  I was out for my morning run once when a guy […]

Mid-Valley Picnic at Good Samaritan

That Exodus story expresses very modern and present fears. The Egyptians are afraid in the same way many Americans are – who’s out-populating us? Is it Muslims, Mormons, or Latino immigrants? You can hear those fears being stirred on talk radio, about how all those people, the ones who aren’t the mainstream of what America […]

6th Sunday after Pentecost

Bunia, Congo24 July 11 The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts SchoriPresiding Bishop and PrimateThe Episcopal Church Nearly ten years ago, when I was Bishop of Nevada, I went to Kenya to try to build partnerships between three dioceses there and the Diocese of Nevada. I spent most of the time in the Diocese of Machakos, where […]