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...

Silas Harvey Passarella, my daughter Valerie and Mark’s son and five-year-old Harriet’s little brother, arrived on our side of the veil on Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m., right on schedule. The family...

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...

Historian and journalist Rick Perlstein is a progressive expert in conservative candidates and presidents, beginning with Barry Goldwater, who ran unsuccessfully in 1964, through Ronald Reagan. His...

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

Gracious God, Trayvon Martin, who would have turned 30 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...

God of justice and love, on the 112th 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...

Robert K. Radke experienced 2004’s historic typhoon season as the breath of the Holy Spirit. A China hand with an Oxford Ph.D, he’d held a series of top posts at the Asia Society, which builds bonds...

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;...

Creator, we lift up and thank you for our Black siblings who have shaped history. We pray that the learning happening this month in schools, homes and workplaces will be meaningful and deep-rooted....

“Let each of you look not to your own interests,” Paul wrote to the Philippians, “but to the interests of others.” Then and now, the greatest challenge for the Christian, no matter how pious, is...