by Andrew Morehead | Jul 29, 2020 | News
July 29, 2020 Dear East Tennessee Friends, I am writing you today to make you aware of the membership of the Becoming Beloved Community Task Force for our Diocese. My prayer and hope is that this group of leaders will guide our work in Becoming Beloved Community, the...
by Andrew Morehead | Jul 27, 2020 | News
Callings By Claire Keene Nets, nerves, the silver web of streams in the moonlight moving seaward, in roots and branches, journeys. Prophecies in the pink hands of babies, blue histories in diaphanous aged flesh. All movement is of life to life. Like hands stretched...
by Andrew Morehead | Jul 20, 2020 | News
Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt By David Bottoms On the rough diamond, the hand-cut field below the dog lot and barn, we rehearsed the strict technique of bunting. I watched from the infield, the mound, the backstop as your left hand climbed the bat, your...
by Andrew Morehead | Jul 15, 2020 | News
“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2 (ESV) Dear East Tennessee Friends, On June 24th, at a socially distanced and masked meeting at Diocesan House, the Vestry of St Thomas Episcopal Church, Knoxville, met with me and Canon...
by Andrew Morehead | Jul 13, 2020 | Message from the Bishop
Thoreau in the Rain By David Wagoner He liked bad weather best. He would keep walking when others hurried home, then he would be the only one on a road or a pathway or trespassing through an orchard, lifting his boots and putting them down among the windfall apples....