Oct 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Jubilee Ministries are identified as those that have committed themselves to be a ministry of joint discipleship in Christ with poor and oppressed people, wherever they are found, to meet basic human needs, and to build a just society.Vicky Partin, our Diocesan...
Oct 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
How can twenty-first century Christians engage the world as Jesus did? What does it look like to be the Church in the world? Who are we as the Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement? Where is it the Church should go and how and with and to whom? And why?Bishop Robert...
Oct 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Rev. Daniel Dice serves as the priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Decatur. As an advocate for protecting our environment, Dice wanted to help his parishioners become better stewards of the earth. How? The solution was simple: solar...
Oct 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Samaritan was the only one who gave thanks to Jesus for his healing. And, it was a Samaritan woman who Jesus had his longest conversation with. It is a Samaritan who starred in Jesus’ epic story about being a good neighbor. Jesus talked to people outside of his...
Oct 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Christian Theological Seminary has awarded Lilly Endowment Clergy Renewal Grants to 146 congregations in the U.S., including two from the Diocese of Atlanta:The Rev. Mary Erickson of The Episcopal Church of the Ascension – Cartersville, GAThe Rev. Robert...
Sep 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
We lament the stark joylessness that marks our present time. We decry angry political rhetoric which rages while fissures widen within society along racial, economic, educational, religious, cultural and generational lines. We refuse to look away as poverty, cruelty...
Sep 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
On September 28, 2016, Archdeacon Carole Maddux was awarded the 2016 Community Impact Award by Georgians for a Heathy Future. In their explanation for why she was chosen, Georgians for a Healthy Future wrote this: “Carole Maddux lives and breathes health care...
Sep 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Presbyters of the Diocese gathered for their annual conference at the Rock Eagle 4-H Conference Center in Eatonton, GA September 26-28, 2016. In speaking to the presbyters, Bishop Wright said that part of the purpose of the conference is to take the time to...
Sep 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Rich never noticed Lazarus’ agony. His sickness. His hunger. Rich was comfortable. He ate well, dressed fine, died and went to Hell. There, Rich finally saw Lazarus. Maybe hell is finally seeing. Maybe hell is being near to God, totally enveloped in love and now,...
Sep 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
On September 22, 2016, The Candler School of Theology awarded Robert (Bob) N. Clarke and Allan Sandlin with the 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award for Lifetime Achievement. Clarke has dedicated over 60 years to the church through music and education ministries, and even...
