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One Flock, One Shepherd

Beloved in Christ, When I was a freshman in college, I decided to skip a class one morning to sleep in. It was a small theatre workshop which depended on everyone’s participation and coll...

The Abundance of Easter

Beloved in Christ, Last night, I spent a few hours at my daughter’s orchestra concert. The high school ensemble performed Dmitri Shoshtakovich’s famous "String Quartet Number 8". The piece ca...

Liturgy Communication

Beloved in Christ, I am writing to you today in order to address two significant topics related to our shared liturgical life: the use of alternative liturgies to those found in the Book of...

Living in Easter's Light

Beloved in Christ, In the gospel for this coming Sunday, Thomas demands proof of the resurrection. He wants to see and touch the risen Jesus before he will believe. After he is given that proof, ...

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’...

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