The Bishop's Blog
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...
The Bishop’s Blog: Lambeth Conference Day 3
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: Lambeth worship, music and encounters
The music presaged the majesty of which the 15th Lambeth conference is capable — as long as we follow the teaching of 1 Peter, our text for this meeting of global Anglicans, and are “holy as [God]...
The Bishop’s Blog: Daily prayer 7-28-22
O God, whose parental care reaches to the uttermost parts of the earth: We humbly beseech you graciously to behold and bless whom we love, now absent from us. Defend them from all dangers of soul...
The Bishop’s Blog: Lambeth Day 2
It’s Thursday morning at the University of Kent, and the Lambeth conference will be in retreat today, with separate programs for bishops and those spouses who have been invited (same-gender spouses...
The Bishop’s Blog: Visiting Canterbury Cathedral, St. Dunstan’s Church
The hallowed place of Thomas Becket’s martyrdom in Canterbury Cathedral, after he displeased Henry II, and the crypt in St. Dunstan’s Church, where Sir Thomas More’s head ended up after he...