Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?' And I said, 'Here am I; send me.' 

-Isaiah 6:8

In less than a month, we will celebrate Mother's Day and collectively spend an estimated $14 billion on flowers and other gifts. In full disclosure, I plan on sending my mother flowers and would be pleased to receive them from my sons. But no one needs our support and attention on Mother's Day as much as those mothers who live with the daily fear of losing their children.

Whenever a child, even an adult child, enters our collective consciousness because of the violence perpetrated upon them, we hear an anguished mother's (and father's) cry. Among them, Judy Scott, Gwenn Carr, and Sabrina Fulton have pleaded with us to remember their sons-Walter, Eric, and Trayvon--and to stand up for all children. 

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In this past year, congregations of our Diocese have been looking for ways to collaborate with each other in ministry, worship or social gatherings. Often congregations tend to clusters together with others in a sense of shared commonality-- geography, size, diversity, interests, practices of ministry. But I'd like to encourage you to consider collaborating with a congregation that is completely different from your own...so different as to make you uncomfortable when you first meet. Read more...