Jun 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Reading Camp at Snellville, held annually since 2013, will be up and running again this year from June 18-22. It is modeled after the Reading Camp program begun by the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky.A non-religious, no-fee camp, the camp focuses on campers...
Jun 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
What is lovable about Jesus is he’s undeterred. He mobilized people of all kinds in his God enterprise. He drew and affected crowds that organized religion couldn’t or wouldn’t. This caused people to want to “restrain” him. Even his family. We do that, don’t we? We...
Jun 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, Bishop Wright convened a group of lay and clergy from across the Diocese and appointed them as the Vitality Advisory Team (VAT). The VAT will partner with the Bishop and Canon for Congregational Vitality to increase the spiritual maturity of...
Jun 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
On February 25, 2018, the Episcopal Community Foundation for Middle and North Georgia (ECF) partnered with the Atlanta Community Food Bank and local faith organizations for the 34th Annual Hunger Walk Run. Episcopalians walked, ran, or volunteered for the Diocese of...
Jun 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Paul E. Lambert was elected the seventh Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of Dallas on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at The Cathedral of St. Matthew’s, in Dallas. For the previous six years he had served as Canon to the Ordinary in Dallas under Bishop James M Stanton....
Jun 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
God is a song that needs a choir, not just sections or soloists. The Christian needs the Jew, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist and the “spiritual but not religious.” We need the scientist, the agnostic and the atheist. Without a commitment to listen to each other...
May 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Imagine our homes and families where love is the way. Imagine our neighborhoods and communities where love is the way. Imagine our governments and nations where love is the way. Imagine business and commerce where this love is the way. Imagine...
May 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
There’s real resistance by individuals and the institutional church to engage friends and strangers with what we call, “the good news of Jesus Christ.” Sure, many preachers preach it and many worshippers nod but, quietly we know and accept no progress will be made....
May 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta is honored to have received awards for communication, marketing, and design again this year by both the Episcopal Communicators and the Religion Communicators Council. “These awards indicate we are on the right track in how we...
May 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
On May 8, Bishop Rob Wright, Archdeacon Carole Maddux, and the Rev. Loree Reed participated in the ribbon cutting ceremony for a brand new, health care clinic in Taliaferro County. This clinic is the first fruit of a call in 2016 by Bishop Rob Wright to identify and...
