March 24 Clergy Conference Call Recap on COVID-19

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Dear clergy, Thank you for participating in the call this morning. It was good to see all of your faces. Again, it’s important for you to make every effort to attend these gatherings. However, if you cannot, a follow up email will be sent. Topics discussed: CPG...

Forward Day By Day – March 25, 2020

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Today is a day for names. In Isaiah, the promised Messiah’s name is to be Emmanuel, God with us, embodying the divine promise of protection to the children of Israel. Emmanuel—a redeeming presence in the midst of disaster. In Luke, Gabriel brings a mess….(View...

Forward Day By Day – March 24, 2020

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

In 1980, Roman Catholic Archbishop Óscar Romero of San Salvador was assassinated while celebrating Mass. Romero lived a public ministry distinguished by speaking out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations, and torture. While the Salvadoran...

For a Louisiana priest who’s no stranger to disasters, COVID-19 is ‘the moment we’ve been trained for’

Monday, March 23, 2020

Editor’s note: This story is the first in a series about how priests and lay members across The Episcopal Church are caring for one another during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you have an inspiring pastoral-care story to share, send it to news@episcopalchurch.org....

Forward Day By Day – March 23, 2020

Monday, March 23, 2020

An unaccompanied woman with a demon-possessed daughter initiating a conversation with a strange man will prompt some controversial responses. Even Jesus is prickly. Then Jesus blows God’s love and healing power wide open, negating ethnic, political, and social...

Forward Day By Day – March 22, 2020

Sunday, March 22, 2020

When Jesus heals the blind man who hasn’t asked to be healed, it is Jesus himself who interprets this healing with dialogue and commentary. He explains the need to do the works of him who sent me…as long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world....

Forward Day By Day – March 21, 2020

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Thomas Ken was born in 1637 in Berkhampsted, Hertfordshire, England—the same village where my grandmother grew up. Ken was an Anglican bishop, royal chaplain to King Charles II of England, and one of seven bishops who opposed James II’s Declaration of Indulgence....

Forward Day By Day – March 20, 2020

Friday, March 20, 2020

Earlier on this day, Jesus and his disciples are on one side of the sea of Galilee with a crowd of five thousand people. What Jesus blesses, breaks, and gives to meet the crowd’s need is a miraculous abundance of more than enough. The disciples don’t ha….(View...

Forward Day By Day – March 19, 2020

Thursday, March 19, 2020

From The Archives: June 6, 1944What we call infinity in time and space is beyond our comprehension. Time is no more infinite in the dawn of the geologic past or in the millennium of the farthest prophetic future than it is now while you put into it what thoughts and...

Forward Day By Day – March 18, 2020

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

I met Sarah one summer, just as she began to process some horrible childhood events. We walked many, many miles together on those summer evenings. I listened as Sarah shared every last detail of her stories. With an ordained friend, we shared eucharist one evening. As...