Frank T. Griswold
Easter Season 2002 Message
A prayer at Eastertide Risen Christ, in the midst of grief and despair, at the very point when all seemed lost you stood in the midst of your friends in the fullness of your resurrection reality and proclaimed your peace: a peace that reorders and renews all things. May the same peace find a home […]
Embraced by Resurrection
We are reconciled in the Risen Christ During last year’s meeting of the primates of the Anglican Communion Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria and I were in the same small Bible study group. After that time of coming to know one another as brothers in Christ, Archbishop Peter asked me to visit Nigeria and to […]
Bishop Meets in Climate of Reconciliation at Texas Retreat Center
Despite dire predictions of a confrontation over a range of sensitive issues in the life of the Episcopal Church, the annual spring retreat of bishops ended March 12 with general agreement that it had been one of the deepest and most honest encounters many of them had experienced. The overall theme of the retreat was […]
Statement on the Middle East Conflict
The unbreakable cycle of violence which was set in motion by Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem some 18 months ago has led to a tragic loss of Israeli and Palestinian lives, many of them innocent civilians. For the Israelis the issue is security and for the Palestinians the issue is […]
Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold issues statement on Middle East
Today Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold issued a brief statement on the crisis in the Middle East. He sent the statement to Secretary of State Colin Powell with his prayers “as you and your office seek ways to resolve this tragic situation with its terrible global consequences.” The presiding bishop said: “The unbreakable cycle of […]
Striving for True Boldness
“Words are a medium of divine self-disclosure,” I once heard Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel declare to a group of Christian liturgists as they congratulated themselves at having celebrated a largely wordless liturgy. I recall that he looked like a Hebrew prophet of old, and spoke with the authority of one who prayed deeply. He respected […]
A progress report from the Presiding Bishop
The following report was read to the Executive Council, meeting in San Antonio, during a plenary session February 22, 2002 Since the beginning of this triennium I have been working with the Management Team on a strategic thinking process. A broad segment of the staff has also been invited into this process, and that work […]
World Mission Sunday 2002 Letter
January, 2002 Dear companions in Christ: The Episcopal Church will celebrate World Mission Sunday on February 10 in 2002, with a theme of “Companionship.” More than 80 dioceses of our church have companion relationships with dioceses or provinces in other parts of the Anglican Communion. In addition, thousands of congregations have exciting links with parishes, […]
A Prayer at Christmas
December 24th, 2001 Christmas 2001 O God, your passionate Word to our warring and divided world is Jesus who, arms stretched upon a cross, breaks down all walls of division and hostility and holds all people and all creation in a fierce embrace of unyielding and unconquerable love. As we celebrate his birth in the […]
Presiding Bishop's letter to the bishops on military strikes
For the House of Bishops Dear brothers and sisters: I write to you in this sober moment when military action has just begun in an effort to put a stop to terrorist activities. This morning I sent a letter to Secretary Powell, as a word of encouragement and to assure him of my prayers and […]