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Bishop Beckwith's Blog: Signs of God's Grace
Bishop Beckwith's Blog: Signs of God's Grace
The Rt. Rev. Mark M. Beckwith
10th Bishop of Newark (2007-2018)
Grace happens. All the time. Grace is God's gift to us. The signs of God's grace are abundant. Some are dramatic. Many at first glance seem mundane. All are potentially life transforming.
God created us, but God was not – and is not, finished with creating. God keeps showing up. God is very much at work. Our job as God's creatures, is to pay attention to God's grace. And to join with God in God's work.
January 17, 2011
Our country pauses this weekend to honor Martin Luther King on his birthday, January 15. Our prayer cycle remembers Dr. King on April 4, the day he...
December 24, 2010
"Peace to the whole community, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." (Ephesians 6:23)
Peace indeed. On earth --...
December 23, 2010
One of our longest hymns is St. Patrick's breastplate, which begins "I bind unto myself today...."
It is often sung at ordinations. It is seven...
December 22, 2010
Paul challenges us to challenge the principalities and powers. It requires truth telling -- which can be difficult at times -- and demands profound...
December 21, 2010
"Be angry but do not sin." (Ephesians 4:26) This is Paul's clarion call for nonviolence.
December 19, 2010
Yesterday a small group in the diocese met with The Rt. Rev. Christopher Senyenjo, an exiled Bishop in Uganda. Christopher has been marginalized...
December 18, 2010
"Be all you can be" was a recruiting ploy of the US Army several years back. The phrase has stuck with me, partly because I thought it to be a...
December 17, 2010
Before he died, the great psychologist and author Carl Jung was interviewed about his view of the world -- and about God.
'Do you believe in God?',...
December 16, 2010
When I was a priest in Massachusetts, Archibshop Tutu came to preach on the occasion of his granddaughter's baptism. Bishop Tutu began his sermon by...
December 15, 2010
One of St. Paul's intentions is to take on the "principalities and powers" (Ephesians 1:20 ff) They are the entities and institutions whose primary...