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Chrism Mass 2025

In the five years I have served as your bishop, it seems like the world has handed us one crisis after another. The early COVID shut downs were followed quickly by the murder of George Floyd, which wa...

An Easter Story from the Margins

Beloved in Christ, Easter arrives as a preposterous, laughable story from the margins. When the women who first witness the resurrection run and tell the apostles, the fact that “it seeme...

How Do We Respond?

Dearly Beloved, Jeremiah 29:4-14 is a passage of scripture worth spending a lot of time with these days. The prophet speaks a word from God to the people who had been forced into exile afte...

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There with Jesus!

Dearly Beloved, In the gospel lesson appointed for this coming Sunday, Jesus and his disciples are gathered at the home of Lazarus a few days before Jesus's arrest. They are no doubt engage...

Living with Hope

Dearly Beloved, Last Thursday evening, I had dinner with a small group of bishops at a restaurant in a small Alabama town. The staff seemed overwhelmed and out of sorts, and there were a se...

Fear Not

"One thing have I asked of the Lord; One thing I seek;that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life" Psalm 27 Beloved in Christ, Every time I go back to m...

Making Space for God

Beloved in Christ, Lent arrived with a blizzard that has now dispersed almost as quickly as it arrived. I woke up especially early this morning to get ready for a 7:30 am liturgy, and was j...

Rooted in Prayer

Beloved in Christ, One of the things I love about the Gospel of Luke in particular is that just about every major event or decision in Jesus’ life is preceded by or rooted in prayer. That’...

God's Generous Heart

February 19, 2025

Beloved in Christ, When Chris Anderson took over TED, the now famous global movement of talks that are distributed widely online, it was an in-person conference devoted to ideas around tech...

Communities of Witness

February 12, 2025

Beloved in Christ, God always acts in history by cultivating small, remnant communities of witness and resistance in the face of calamity, crisis, and horrendous evil. When Israel’s hopes we...

Our Call as Christians to Take Action to Support Migrants

February 6, 2025

“. . .for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. . .” —Matthew 25:35 Beloved in Christ,The cleare...

The Riskiness of Following Jesus

February 5, 2025

Beloved in Christ,Luke’s story of the call of the first disciples appointed for this Sunday reminds us of three critical things about following Jesus in this moment: Jesus doesn’t wa...

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