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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.
October 18, 2017
Resentment sells. Social media has become a platform for injuries, slights and blame. Our President has a rather perverse skill in fomenting and...
October 2, 2017
Dear members of the diocese,
Grief, shock and outrage have been filling our hearts since we learned early this morning of the murder of 58 (and...
September 20, 2017
Joining God in Shaping our Future and the Jesus Movement are different metaphors which express the same thing: that we are being invited by God and...
September 6, 2017
To the millions of people in Southeast Texas, Mother Nature seemed like a cruel parent as Hurricane Harvey stormed through the region, leaving...
August 16, 2017
Much of the foundation of Christian faith and life lies in the listening and telling of stories. Stories that are between 2,000 and 4,000 years old;...
August 14, 2017
The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is fear. And fear was on full display this past weekend as white supremacists gathered in...
July 19, 2017
I am convinced that the current health care debate is not really about health care, but about who wins. As is often the case in recent politics,...
June 21, 2017
“The Church can be a model for listening in these times.”
That was a comment made by a participant at the diocesan Listening Reflection event, when...
May 17, 2017
“I take Gospel positions; not partisan positions.” That is the litany I hear over and over again from diocesan clergy who, though goaded by the angry...
May 3, 2017
Fight or flight. Those have long been the first visceral responses whenever human beings feel threatened.
Flight was the first response after Jesus’...