My name is Rob Constantine. I have been an Episcopalian my entire life. I was born with Cerebral Palsy, a condition caused by a brain injury before, during or after […]
This is one story, my story. I offer it to enlighten, inform, and challenge. My family and I have been living with disability since a horrible night in 1988 when […]
It would have been better if I had been disabled from birth. I was born to a very athletic family; my relatives won state and national championships in swimming and […]
The nominating committee for our next diocesan bishop has been hard at work since October 2017. We have made much progress. We were blessed with a wonderful response to our […]
Our national and local conversations are being redirected by the leadership of schoolchildren. Some among us may recognize this as a sign of the Reign of God in Isaiah’s prophecy […]
I’ve been bouncing in the back of a pickup truck over a rocky rural road for the past hours with 12 members of an indigenous tribe in the mountains of […]
It has been three months since the diocesan convention, and your standing committee continues to be very busy, both managing the transition process and serving as the ecclesiastical authority for […]
[This story first appeared in the Spring 2018 Diocesan Messenger.] I had the remarkable opportunity to visit Vida Joven in Tijuana last fall. Vida Joven literally means ‘young life’ and serves […]
On the sixth anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s murder, the Rev. Naomi Tutu shares a raw piece filled with the ache of Black motherhood in the US today. For the last […]
[This story first appeared in the Spring 2018 Diocesan Messenger.] Next time someone asks, “And, what do you do?” stand taller.Draw back your shoulders. Put one hand on your waist. […]
