A Message from Bishop Wright
Beloved in Christ, now that The 81st General Convention is adjourned, I want to share a few words with you…
Harvest
Harvest labor, Jesus says, is down into the fingernail-dirty corners of the world where the poor live who don’t often make it into our churches. It’s down into the muck of human relationships.
A Message from Bishop Wright on the 28th Presiding Bishop
Beth-Sarah and I are immensely grateful to God for all of the support and prayers sent in our direction from across the church and especially from the people of The Diocese of Atlanta. By the grace of God, let us continue to press on in the name of Jesus Christ.
Defeating Giants
David and Goliath is one of the best stories in the Bible. Spoiler alert! Goliath loses big to the teenager!
Observing Juneteenth
“Today is Juneteenth! Today we celebrate the gift of freedom though delayed but not denied. Nearly two years after the Emancipation Proclamation the news of freedom came to 250,000 people in Galveston, Texas. The Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing here in...
Questions
Maturing faith appreciates questions.
Grace-grit
God intervenes through grace. Our response to grace is thanksgiving. It’s a call and response, a cause and effect.
Choose
For Jesus, relieving human suffering was worship! For Jesus, religious and political structures exist to affirm human dignity and deliver mercy.
Freedom-House
The church ought to be a freedom-house. The best measure of that isn’t how high the steeple is or how deep the endowment runs, but how many people here are being made free.
Power-House
What is the church? The answer is right there in the story of Pentecost! God intends for the church- the people and where we gather- to be a Power-House!