The Bishop's Blog

Gracious God, we pray in remembrance and thanksgiving for the witness of Sam Hammond, Henry Smith, and Delano Middleton, unarmed students of African descent who were shot and killed by police on...

Gracious God in Christ, who shepherds your people through the wilderness, lighting us forward to the realm of freedom and truth even when sin tries to block our way: We give you thanks for the...

Gracious God, we give you thanks for the life and witness of Arthur Ashe, who died on this day in 1993. The only man of African descent to win the singles titles at the U.S. Open, Wimbledon, and the...

Gracious God, Trayvon Martin, who would have turned 31 today, was nine when he saved the life of his father, Tracy, by dragging him from their burning apartment. You knew Trayvon's courage and his...

Our long national nightmare requires Christian leaders to seek opportunities for deeper, more politically engaged ecumenism. These days, detente with Rome is tugging at my heart — and not just...

God of justice and love, on the 113th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Parks, who had been working and advocating for civil rights for 12 years in the Montgomery NAACP before choosing her...

O God, whom saints and angels delight to worship in heaven: Be ever present with your servants who seek through art and music to perfect the praises offered by your people on earth; and grant to...

The prophetic voice is allowed to be practical. If Christian disciples want to help end the catastrophe that Trump is visiting on our country using the immigration issue, in addition to lifting up...

The Rev. Canon Warner Traynham’s first conscious memory is hearing legendary radio announcer Gabriel Heatter describing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's funeral train making its way from Warm...

Former Rep. Stacey Abrams, author and voting rights advocate, brought the gospel imperative of saving democracy to the pulpit Sunday afternoon at First AME Church of Los Angeles, presenting her ten...

Almighty and everliving God, we humbly pray that, as your only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple, so we may be presented to you with pure and clean hearts by Jesus Christ our Lord;...

It's a classic American story. Within hours of the deadly terrorist bombing of the Murrah federal building Oklahoma City in April 1994, a massive posse descended on three teenagers along a lonely...