Click above for video. I want to bring greetings to you, the good people of the Diocese of East Tennessee, as we prepare for another season of Easter. In the season of Easter, the Church hears again of the love of the resurrected Christ, the one who meets us in the garden and surprises us by knowing our name. In the Christ, we are reconciled and redeemed and it is a story of hope that we have been given, a
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Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated, but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you ~1 Peter 3:13-15 Next week is Holy Week. We will be
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Recently retired South Carolina priest, the Rev. Peter Munson, has embarked on a walking journey from Charleston, South Carolina, to San Francisco, California. The journey is in support of a calling – to walk across the country to raise money for four non-profit organizations that do great work for children. The project is called, “6 Million Steps for Kids,” approximately the number of steps it will take to walk from Charleston to San Francisco. The journey began March 4, and he will
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Micah 4:4-5 (NRSV) 4 but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no one shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken. 5 For all the peoples walk, each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. East Tennessee friends, Last week, I attended the House of Bishops at Kanuga Conference Center in
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From Randy Schulte, president, DuBose Board of Directors Following an extensive national search, the DuBose Conference Center Board of Directors is pleased and excited to announce that the next Executive Director of the DuBose Conference Center will be James Stratt Byars IV. Mr. Byars comes to DuBose from Camp McDowell in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. Stratt has extensive experience collaborating with a board of directors. He has successful leadership experience in key managerial roles from development and finances to
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Sermon Given at Church of the Good Samaritan, Knoxville Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany | February 24, 2019 Luke 6:27-38 On February 17, 1977, in Uganda, the Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum was murdered on orders by the dictator Idi Amin. For years since, he has been remembered as a modern Christian martyr, a man of God who stood up to a brutal, demonic dictator. For doing so, he was killed. This week, on the 42nd anniversary of Luwum’s murder, the
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Bishop’s Address to the 35th Annual Convention of the Diocese of East Tennessee The Right Rev. Brian Lee Cole | Knoxville, Tennessee Click here for the video of the bishop’s address to the 2019 Convention. The text is below. Before I begin my address to you, I would like for us to pray. The Lord be with you. (And also with you). Grant, we beseech you, O Lord, perseverance in your holy service, and that the people serving you in
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By the Rev. Jon Hermes, rector, St. Timothy, Kingsport Ever hear a parent say something like, “Don’t leave that light on! Do you want to pay the power bill?” Given the time you heard that, the concern was probably over a 60 or 100-watt light bulb. At St. Timothy’s, we experienced an issue where our emergency heating in our fellowship hall was staying on most of the time. In our case, that was an extra 20,000 watts being used. That
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The Rev. Peter Keese and his wife Helen will soon be moving to Nashville. We thank Peter for his many years of service to this diocese, including his service as Standing Committee president, and as the “vicar” of Christ Church in Rugby. A lifelong Episcopalian and a priest since 1962, Peter was a clinical educator of pastors and pastors-to-be for much of his professional career. We give thanks for all the ways he has served the communities in which he
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Sermon Given at St. Timothy, Signal Mountain Epiphany | January 6, 2019 Isaiah 60:1-6 Text of the sermon is below; a video of the sermon is here (sound improves in a few seconds in). We saw the photograph for the first time five years ago. It was taken in 1965, a black and white image. Most of the photograph is hidden in darkness. In the center, there is a group of bodies, all lined in silhouettes. There is one adult, a college girl,
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