The blues gets mislabeled as “music for older folks” until you hear a young artist explain where it really comes from. In this episode, Bishop Wright has a conversation with Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Jontavius Willis, a Georgia musician whose sound carries something old, something new, and something deeply personal.
This is part two of a two-part conversation centered on Bishop Wright’s teachings at Clergy Conference 2026: Anchored for the Future.When everything feels like it’s shaking, the real question is, “What can actually hold me?” In Jeremiah 29:11, we get a glimpse of what holds Jeremiah in a world marked by collapse, displacement, and grief.
This is part one of a two-part conversation centered on Bishop Wright’s teachings at Clergy Conference 2026: Anchored for the Future.Hope often gets treated like a soft word, but we don’t experience it that way when life gets real.
Delay is one of the quickest ways to test what we really trust.
Confidence can sound like having all the right answers.
“Incline your ears” sounds gentle, but it is a direct challenge to the way most of us live.
Two names most people have never heard may be the reason the Exodus story even has a future.
Your words don’t just “slip out” when you’re stressed.
The scariest part of a storm isn’t always the wind and waves, it’s what fear convinces us we’re seeing.
Scarcity is loud.
Pain has a way of making everything feel personal, like the universe is singling you out.
You can ruin a garden by being too confident, and you can damage a church the same way.
Over the next four weeks, For People will feature special guests from the Diocese of Atlanta: the Rev.
Unconditional love gets talked about like it has no edges, but that kind of “anything goes” love can turn selfish and chaotic fast.
In no particular order, Bishop Fisher loves Jesus, the Church, organization and congregational development, poetry, Holy Scripture, her family in all of its delightful and quirky forms, thrift stores, singing, practicing and teaching yoga, vegetables, laughter, playing in the kitchen and sharpie markers.
Jesus does not look at a hurting world and offer merely technical solutions.
Hunger rarely looks like the stereotype. Sometimes it looks like a parent who works full-time but cannot make childcare and groceries fit in the same month. Sometimes it looks like grandparents raising grandchildren, a family navigating a health crisis, or
This episode is Bishop Rob Wright’s sermon from the ordination and consecration of Bishop Sarah Fisher, ninth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, given on May 23. In his sermon, Bishop Wright answers an important question: what is a bishop for?
Togetherness is not a warm slogan, it’s the only way we meet the scale of what’s in front of us. From the start, we press on a simple question: how do you remember the past honestly without letting it turn into bitterness?
Love sounds simple until you try to practice it with someone who won’t return it, someone who betrays you, or someone whose decisions harm people you care about.
