Bishop Lawrence

An Interview: “With You in Fear and Trembling”

Bishop Lawrence Looks Back on 14-Year Episcopacy

On January 6, 2022, I had the opportunity to sit down with Bishop Lawrence to talk about his ministry within the diocese over

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Clergy Reflect on Lawrence’s Leadership

“A Loving and Gracious Pastor to All”

Thank you to the clergy who submitted reflections about Bishop Lawrence’s leadership. Unfortunately we did not have space to include them all.

The Rev.
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Before Worrying, Consider…

Recently I finished re-reading Mary Oliver’s Owls and Other Fantasies, a book of poetry and essays about birds—hawks, hummingbirds, herons, and a dozen others. It reminded me of a
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Bishop Lawrence: A Lenten Discipline for a Shuttered Season

Lent begins today, and as the effects of this pandemic continue to shutter and mask so much of life, I search about for a fruitful Lenten discipline to embrace.
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The Marriage of the Virgin

An Advent Meditation

Until I was standing before Corrado Giaquinito’s Marriage of the Virgin, I had never thought about the wedding of Joseph and Mary. Certainly, I had read countless
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Faithfulness in an Age of Pandemic

A Pastoral Letter from The Rt. Rev. Mark J. Lawrence

March 17, 2020

Greetings in the strong name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
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“Shopmas,” Advent & Christmas: An Advent/Christmas Interview with Bishop Mark Lawrence

In late November, 2019, I had an opportunity to chat with Bishop Lawrence about Advent and Christmas. What follows is a condensed version of our conversation.

Joy Hunter, Editor

Bishop, how
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