April 4th is a day that is etched in the national consciousness as the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. was senselessly murdered in Memphis, Tenn. The Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing invites you to join us as we remember Dr. King’s and all martyrs’...
The following is a transcript of the sermon of Bishop Rob Wright at Ebenezer Baptist Church on March 20 for their 136th Anniversary. Greetings to you in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. And I bring greetings also from your brothers and sisters in the Episcopal...
Fulton County Chairman Rob Pitts appointed LGBTQ+ advocate Bruce Garner to lead the Metropolitan Atlanta HIV Health Services Planning Council. The regional body provides access to HIV care in twenty metro Atlanta countries. Garner, who previously served as chair of...
The story of the Prodigal son is one of Jesus’ best. It’s probably better entitled, the story of the Loving Father. The father’s love, despite the resentment of one son and the foolishness of the other, holds the family together. Sometimes family division and...
Before Moses becomes a deliverer of his people, he’s a felon in the wilderness. What changes him from a rogue to a reformer is a new intimacy with God. Out of a blazing bush, he hears God whisper his name and the name of his ancestors. The story climaxes with God...
The following is a transcript of the sermon of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry at the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church, meeting in retreat at Camp Allen, Navasota, Texas, through March 21. These remarks have been lightly edited for clarity. In the name of our...
The worldwide COVID pandemic these last two years has altered the way we live in so many different ways. Last summer, as infection numbers declined, so did overall moral and attendance numbers as parishioners gently returned to in-person worship. The clergy and vestry...
The Center for Racial Healing is proud to celebrate National Women’s History Month and share the stories of four women who courageously contribute to dismantling racism and advocating for wellness. They hope you’ll be inspired by their brave life work as...
Dr. Catherine Meeks, founding executive director of the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing, has been named a 2022 Presidential Award Lifetime Achievement Honoree. Dr. Meeks was awarded The President Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award and the...
By baptism, and the order that comes with that, God has and is growing a colony of heaven on the earth. Lines on a map and petty political partisanship are too small to contain what God has planned for us, and wants to accomplish in and through us. Still, to be a...
