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Posts from retired blogs, including Bishop Mark Beckwith's blog "Signs of God's Grace," Canon Greg Jacobs' blog "Out of the Ordinary," and blogs by General Convention deputies in 2012 and 2015.
Posted by Mark Beckwith on November 6, 2017
Posted by Greg Jacobs on October 31, 2017
We have wonderful thriving ministries in our congregations!
Posted by Mark Beckwith on 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 facilitating resentment. He does it because he has figured out that lots of people – from every political stripe, want to buy it. And yet, as Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said, resentment is drinking poison and then expecting someone else to get sick.
Posted by Mark Beckwith on October 2, 2017
Dear members of the diocese,
Posted by Mark Beckwith on 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 b
Posted by Mark Beckwith on 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 deva
Posted by Mark Beckwith on August 16, 2017
Much of the foundation of Christian faith and life lies in the listening and telling of stories.
Posted by Mark Beckwith on August 14, 2017
The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is fear.
Posted by Mark Beckwith on July 19, 2017
I am convinced that the current health care debate is not really about health care, but about who wins.