Mission Is Who We Are

My grandparents, William and Katie Belle, were remarkable people who lived in remarkable times.  Within their lifetimes the Wright broth...

Yesterday was Good Shepherd Sunday.  We recited the Twenty-Third Psalm from the Hebrew Scripture, and also loved by Christians.  “The Lo...

The story of the evening of the first Easter begins in a horrifying way.  John writes, “When it was evening on that day, the first day of...

Dan Daniel, the Bishop of East Carolina, is a very good friend of mine.  He is also perhaps one of the funniest people I have ever known....

A difference of living in New York from any other experience in my life is the amount of interaction I have with people before my work day b...

In some ways I worry that I have no right to speak on the events of the last week in the United States, and especially in Florida, where I ...

Lent is a season of prayer.  Perhaps that is why I have tended to view Lent as getting in the way of what I’m doing.  That, of course, is th...