Ghosts and Goblins, costumes, masks, tricks, treats, and frights are all part of Halloween. Halloween’s thrill is to feel scared without actually experiencing any real danger or threat. Candy too. But, what’s scary for me, aren’t the ghosts and goblins but the...
A Prayer for Our Country and Election with Bishop Wright Holding on to Hope | A National Service for Healing and Wholeness Live from Washington National Cathedral – Sunday, November 1, 2020 Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will lead a live-streamed prayer service...
An essential principle of the Absalom Jones Center is that the ministry of racial healing must have a spiritual foundation. Catherine Meeks, the Center’s Executive Director, teaches that sustaining a ministry in dismantling racism demands a life-long program in...
Today the Episcopal Community Foundation for Middle and North Georgia (ECF) announces it has granted $95,800 to four organizations that are lifting people from poverty and oppression in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. The grants have been made to Community Helping...
On October 19, 2020, Rev. Ed Bacon spoke with NPR’s Tonya Mosley. The two talked about the Mourning Into Unity event. Mourning Into Unity, which happened later that night, brought faith leaders together in remembrance of those who have died of COVID-19. Listen...
Following Jesus, proclaiming Jesus, loving like Jesus has always elicited opposition. St. Paul makes this clear in the first letter he ever wrote. The first thing he says that causes opposition is speaking in a fashion that puts pleasing God above pleasing people....
The Rev. Dr. Donna S. Mote, Missioner for Engagement and Innovation for the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta and Episcopal chaplain to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, is the featured preacher Nov. 15 on Day1, the nationally broadcast ecumenical radio...
We talk about God as being Almighty-matchless in power! Think of God also as having the greatest range-peerless in scope, span, and sweep of love. Cue the Diana Ross hit, “Ain’t no mountain high enough, ain’t no valley low enough… to keep me from you.” That’s what...
As part of the inaugural National Faith and Blue Weekend, the Rev. Donna Mote, Missioner for Engagement and Innovation, blessed the horses of the Atlanta Police Mounted Patrol Unit. National Faith & Blue Weekend, which took place the weekend of October 9-12, was...
The Rev. Peter M. Wallace, host and executive producer of Day1, is the featured preacher November 8 on Day1, the nationally broadcast ecumenical radio program also accessible as a podcast and online at Day1.org. “Answering the Big Question,” Wallace’s sermon for Nov....
