The Bishop's Blog

O God of all, whose Son commanded us to love our enemies: Lead them and us from prejudice to truth; deliver them and us from hatred, cruelty, and revenge; and in your good time enable us all to...

Almighty God, who gave your servant Argula von Grumbach a spirit of wisdom and power to love your Word and to boldly draw others to its truth: Pour out that same spirit upon us, that we, knowing and...

Almighty God, of your grace you gave Conrad Weiser the gift of diplomacy, the insight to understand two different cultures and interpret each to the other with clarity and honesty: As we strive to...

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...

Convention was three 12-hours days, 11,000 righteous steps a day going hotel-convention center-hotel — and then, midday on this beautiful Baltimore Monday, the voice of Gay Clark Jennings, president...

Gracious God, whose service is perfect freedom and in whose commandments there is nothing harsh nor burdensome: Grant that we, with your servant Benedict, may listen with attentive minds, pray with...

In a four-day General Convention, or even the full-size, eight-day version, every one of us 130 bishops had better not expect to be heard on each of the scores of issues we take up. Yet we’re all...

O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to...

(8:06 p.m.) "Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all." So sings Bruce Springsteen -- and so said the boss, Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry, quoting the boss today in the House of Bishops. That's two...

Almighty God, who after the creation of the world rested from all your works and sanctified a day of rest for all your creatures: Grant that we, putting away all earthly anxieties, even as we are in...

The 2022 General Convention of The Episcopal Church is meeting out on the streets this weekend as well as in the chambers of the houses of deputies and bishops (where important, painstaking work is...

God of grace and might, who gave to your servants Aquila and Priscilla gifts of zeal and eloquence to make known the truth of the Gospel: Raise up, we pray, in every country, heralds and evangelists...