The Bishop's Blog
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 8-4-22
Almighty and everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole body of your faithful people is governed and sanctified: Receive our supplications and prayers which we offer before you for all members of...
The Bishop’s Blog: Lambeth Conference Day 8
With 25 bishops, the Anglican Church of Southern Africa is well-represented at the 15th Lambeth Conference. As chair of the conference design group, Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba presides...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 8-3-22
Grant, O God, that in all time of our testing we may know your presence and obey your will; that, following the example of your servant John Mason Neale, we may with integrity and courage accomplish...
The Bishop’s Blog: Lambeth Conference Day 7
All week at The Lambeth Conference, where bishops from 165 countries are gathered, warm summer breezes have unfurled rainbow flags that students lofted over our University of Kent headquarters as...
The Bishop’s Blog: Reconciliation and trust at Lambeth
In January 2017, the Rt. Rev. Joseph Aba of South Sudan was elected bishop of a brand-new area diocese called Liwolo, just north of the Ugandan border. Within days, he found himself in the midst of...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 8-2-22
O God, you made us in your own image and redeemed us through Jesus your Son: Look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down...
The Bishop’s Blog: Lambeth Conference Day 6
“We just don’t want any more governance,” one primate told me after today’s debate and vote on our third of ten Lambeth calls, on Anglican identity, at the 15th The Lambeth Conference. Bishops had...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 8-1-22
Merciful God, whose servant Joseph of Arimathea with reverence and godly fear prepared the body of our Lord and Savior for burial and laid it in his own tomb: Grant to us, your faithful people,...
The Bishop’s Blog: Lambeth Conference Day 5
Oh, what a difference a Lord’s Day makes. Tonight Justin Welby, archbishop of Canterbury, gracefully but firmly took the 15th The Lambeth Conference in hand, doing his best to fix three broken...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 7-31-22
Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness; through Jesus Christ our...
The Bishop’s Blog: Lambeth Conference Day 4
The Rt. Rev. Richard Cheetham, bishop of Kingston, England, trained as a physicist before being ordained, believes the 21st century church will evangelize more effectively if we show spiritually...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 7-30-22
Let your continual mercy, O Lord, kindle in your Church the never-failing gift of love; that, following the example of your servant William Wilberforce, we may have grace to defend the poor, and...