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Convention Address, 2014 Marc Andrus “…So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation….” I bring this quote...
Bishop Marc Andrus
Darren Main, who teaches Yoga on the Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral, recently interviewed me for his podcast. Please give it a listen.
Bishop Marc Andrus
Let us pray for the people of Ferguson, Missouri, especially for those who knew and loved Michael Brown. Let us not pray at a distance, though, and let us not stop praying as soon as the violence is stilled, for behind and below the violence is never-going-away inequality for black...
Bishop Marc Andrus
Dear People of God in the Diocese of California, I write you an Easter message this year on Holy Saturday, the moment we stop and pause, feel the losses in our own lives, in the lives of those we love, and the losses in the world. The picture on the...
Bishop Marc Andrus
The Archbishop of Canterbury has made public statements that reveal at best a lamentable naiveté and at worst both homophobia and colonial thinking. Archbishop Justin Welby has claimed that the Church of England, if it marries gay and lesbian people there is responsible for the deaths of homosexuals in Africa....
Bishop Marc Andrus
The Archbishop of Canterbury has made public statements that reveal at best a lamentable naiveté and at worst both homophobia and colonial thinking. Archbishop Justin Welby has claimed that the Church of England, if it marries gay and lesbian people there is responsible for the deaths of homosexuals in Africa....
Bishop Marc Andrus
In the extraordinary series of text-less paintings of Old and New Testament stories that form a part of the St. Alban’s Psalter, there is one scene, and one only that is not from the Bible. In the midst of the Visit of the Magi, the Last Supper, the Death of...
Bishop Marc Andrus
Liturgy is more than “the work of the people.” Rather than being primarily our action, liturgy can be a structure that expresses the limits of what we understand about God, into which we pray that God will send the divine energies to take us beyond the structures of liturgy, beyond...
Bishop Marc Andrus
This compact picture of the Last Supper is filled with a powerful view of God’s love for the Cosmos in Jesus Christ. On the left-hand side of the picture we see the Beloved Disciple, leaning against Jesus, listening to the very heartbeat of Jesus’ life. At the same time, Jesus...
Bishop Marc Andrus
The curatorial notes on the St. Alban’s Psalter illumination, The Harrowing of Hell, point out that the image of the demon in the lower right corner of the picture, just inside the gaping jaws of Hell, has been rubbed out by a reader of the Psalter in earlier centuries. There...
Bishop Marc Andrus