The Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, assisting bishop of San Diego, speaks on “Women and Leadership: #MeToo > We Together” on October 4, 2018 at the monthly meeting of Women […]

God weeps when his children destroy each other. Sibling rivalry has been with us since Cain and Abel, and we will have no peace until we learn that we are loved […]

We live in a time of heightened disagreement and increasingly disagreeable modes of communication. Rarely have human societies managed effective and transparent conversations that are also kind. At times we […]

Human beings and our ancestors have been migrating for millions of years, since long before we became Homo sapiens. Everyone reading this has ancestors who migrated out of Africa. The […]

My brothers and sisters in Christ, I write in response to the return of the Diocese of Cuba to The Episcopal Church after 52 years of lonely existence. When we […]

In June I wrote about revitalizing congregations and the normal process of birth, growth, and death in faith communities. In this piece, I’d like to offer some perspective about the […]

Some people think General Convention is a bit like Brigadoon, a small city that appears for a day and then fades away into the mist for the next hundred years. […]

General Convention opens tomorrow at the Austin (TX) Convention Center.  This is the 79th gathering of The Episcopal Church (TEC).  The first one was held in 1785 in Philadelphia, with […]

I first went to overnight camp with my Girl Scout troop and several others when I was 6.  During that week we practiced building campfires, wandered in the woods, hiked […]

I am aware that a large number of clergy in this diocese have been, or will be soon, invited to participate in CREDO.  Some of you have undoubtedly been once, […]