Today’s guest on the Way of Love podcast is Dr. Beth-Sarah Wright—writer, speaker, and passionate advocate for authenticity in our lives and communities. She is director of enrollment management at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School in Atlanta and adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine.  
Dr. Wright holds a doctorate from New York University, a master’s from Cambridge University, and a bachelor’s from Princeton University. Originally from Jamaica, she is married to the Rt. Rev. Robert C. Wright, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, and they are parents to five children. 
Dr. Wright is also the author of five books, including Dignity: Seven Strategies for Creating Authentic Community, which we will delve into today.
  
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Check out Dr. Wright's latest book, Dignity: Seven Strategies for Creating Authentic Community online or at your favorite independent bookstore. 
Follow Dr. Wright's work on her website.  

Creating Authentic Community with Dr. Beth-Sarah Wright

Jesus came to show us how to live, reconciled with God, and with each other, and He taught us that the way to do it is God's way of love. For God's way of love is God's way of life. It's our hope for our families, our communities, our societies. Indeed, it is our hope for the whole world.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, and love came down at Christmas.
And as some of us are beginning to say in this Episcopal church of ours, “Love always.”

Watch and share Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry's 2022 Christmas message now at episcopalchurch.org.

Special Episode: Love. Always. - Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's 2022 Christmas Message

In this episode, Bishop Curry talks with the Rev. Adrian Dannhauser, priest in charge at Church of the Incarnation in Manhattan and author of the new book, Ask Me for a Blessing: (You Know You Need One). 
Every Tuesday, Rev. Dannhauser stands outside her church in New York City with a sign that says: "Ask me for a blessing (because God knows you need one). The incredible stories of how New Yorkers responded populate her both her book--and this conversation with Bishop Curry. 
The two explore what giving and receiving blessings really means, and how curiosity is our best friend when we are doing the work of evangelism. They discuss how spiritual and religious practices draw us closer to God and to one another and the importance of proclaiming the Good News by going out into the streets like Jesus did. 

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Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. 
Check out Adrian's new book, Ask Me for a Blessing: (You Know You Need One)  online or at your favorite independent bookstore. 
Follow Adrian's work on her website. 

Being a Blessing with Adrian Dannhauser

In this episode, Bishop Curry talks with Dr. Thema Bryant, clinical psychologist, incoming president of the American Psychological Association, professor of psychology at Pepperdine University, and an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Thema invites us to pause and look more closely at the intersection of spirituality and psychology – what are the bounds of each and how and where do they overlap?
She encourages us to hold on to the spiritual and religious practices that have always drawn us closer to God and also explores the themes of the sacred now, interconnectedness of all living beings, mindfulness, generosity, surrender, self-compassion, and humility.

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Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. 
Check out Dr. Thema's new book, Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole, Authentic Self online or at your favorite independent bookstore. 
Follow Dr. Thema's work on her website and on her social media channels. 

Coming Home to Ourselves with Dr. Thema Bryant

In this episode, Bishop Curry sits down with the Rev. Jay Sidebotham. Jay is an artist, an Episcopal priest, and the founder of Renewal Works, and co-creator of My Way of Love – a personal guide for your spiritual journey.
My Way of Love is a free resource that offers coaching and tips that can help folks grow by following the seven practices for Jesus-centered life: turn, learn, pray, worship, bless, go, and rest. Practices that help all of us, me included, grow deeper in the love of God, neighbor, and ourselves. 

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Visit the My Way of Love page on episcopalchurch.org to take your own Spiritual Life Inventory and get started on your own personalized journey on the Way of Love.
Check out the Rev. Jay Sidebotham's work with RenewalWorks and Forward Movement.

Finding Your Path on the Way of Love with Jay Sidebotham

In this episode, Bishop Curry talks with Heather Kirn Lanier – an essayist, poet, and creative writing professor. Heather's memoir, Raising A Rare Girl, invites us into her first year of parenting a daughter born with a rare syndrome. Bishop Curry talks with her about how we can change our life and the lives of those we encounter by changing our perspective and looking for the good in every person.

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Find out more about Heather Kirn Lanier's work on her website.
You can purchase Raising a Rare Girl online here or wherever books are sold.

Embracing the Inherent Good in Us All with Heather Kirn Lanier

Following a Jan. 6 noon Epiphany service at Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C., Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry shared words of reflection and exhortation to the church and nation in a recorded message from the Lincoln Memorial.
“The nightmare of last January 6th was not just an event—it was a revelation,” he said. “It was a revelation of deeply dangerous divisions in our nation. … That day, and our response to it, contain potential for both peril and promise.”
On the web: https://www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffairs/presiding-bishop-curry-highlights-moment-of-peril-and-promise-on-one-year-anniversary-of-jan-6-attack/

Special Episode: A Message to the Church and to the Nation - January 6, 2022

In this episode, Bishop Curry talks with Bryan Stevenson – author, lawyer, and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama – about what it means to remember, reorient, and renew an active faith in Jesus and his Way of Love.
This episode is a 3-part conversation recorded for the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast’s December 4 Jubilee Revival: Just Mercy, Just Jesus. In this conversation, Bishop Curry and Stevenson reflect on three bits of scripture: Matthew 16:13-19; Luke 10:25-37; and Romans 5:1-5. 
This season of the Way of Love podcast is sponsored by Church Pension Group, a financial services organization providing employee benefits, property and casualty insurance, and publishing to The Episcopal Church. Follow CPG on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn to learn how it’s been a stable presence in the Church for more than 100 years.
 
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Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. Find out more about the work of the Equal Justice Initiative. Learn more about how Church Pension Group has been a stable presence in the Church for more than 100 years. Watch all of the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast’s revival, Just Mercy, Just Jesus. Don’t forget to post on social media how you’re BLESSing this week, using #WayofLove.

The Blessing of Mercy with Bryan Stevenson

In this episode, Bishop Curry talks with the Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary. This audio comes from the 2020 International Black Clergy Conference, presented by The Episcopal Church’s Office of Black Ministries.
To Worship on the Way of Love is to gather in community weekly to thank, praise, and dwell with God. Dean Brown Douglas and Bishop Curry discuss their understanding of being Black Episcopalians, and the lessons that the whole Church can learn from the earliest days of the Black Church through to the present day. As we explore our relationships with God, as we draw closer to God, we will find ourselves, in turn, drawing closer to each other.
This season of the Way of Love podcast is sponsored by Church Pension Group, a financial services organization providing employee benefits, property and casualty insurance, and publishing to The Episcopal Church. Follow CPG on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn to learn how it’s been a stable presence in the Church for more than 100 years.
 
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Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. Discover more about The Episcopal Church’s Office of Black Ministries. Learn more about how Church Pension Group has been a stable presence in the Church for more than 100 years. Discover how you can Prepare to Become Beloved Community this Advent. Don’t forget to post on social media how you’re WORSHIPing this week, using #WayofLove.
 

Worshipping in the Black Church Tradition with Dean Kelly Brown Douglas

In this episode, Bishop Curry talks with Kory Caudill and Wordsmith, two musicians supporting the Concert for the Human Family series – a project in collaboration with The Episcopal Church’s Becoming Beloved Community initiative, which seeks to build a world where all people may experience dignity and abundant life and see themselves and others as beloved children of God. 
 
To Go on the Way of Love is to cross boundaries, listen deeply, and live like Jesus. Kory and Wordsmith demonstrate how they’ve crossed musical boundaries in the pursuit of real and true reconciliation. As they’ve worked to support the concert series, built around the Prayer for the Human Family from the Book of Common Prayer, they discuss how music calls us into deeper relationship with God and each other. 
 
This season of the Way of Love podcast is sponsored by Church Pension Group, a financial services organization providing employee benefits, property and casualty insurance, and publishing to The Episcopal Church. Follow CPG on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn to learn how it’s been a stable presence in the Church for more than 100 years. 
 
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Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. Say the Prayer for the Human Family from the Book of Common Prayer. Learn more about how Church Pension Group has been a stable presence in the Church for more than 100 years. Find out how you can participate in the Concert for the Human Family. Don’t forget to post on social media how you’re GOing this week, using #WayofLove. 
 
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Going to Build Beloved Community with Kory Caudill & Wordsmith

In this episode, recorded in July 2020, Bishop Curry talks with the Most Rev. Thabo Makgoba, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. Archbishop Thabo’s life is punctuated with stories of hope and oppression, joy and anger, truth and reconciliation.
To Pray on the Way of Love is to dwell intentionally with God each day, whether in though, word, or deed, individually or corporately. Far from a trite bit of advice or a platitude awkwardly expressed or a passive response to injustice, prayer is an intensely powerful practice that centers us on our relationship with God and undergirds the love we show to neighbors.
Bishop Curry and Archbishop Makgoba discuss how prayer has been integral to the work of peace with justice in South Africa – through ministries and advocacy from the environment to racial reconciliation. As members of the worldwide Anglican Communion, The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Southern Africa work with partners around the world to share the love of God and neighbor in our varied contexts.
This season of the Way of Love podcast is sponsored by Church Pension Group, a financial services organization providing employee benefits, property and casualty insurance, and publishing to The Episcopal Church. Follow CPG on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn to learn how it’s been a stable presence in the Church for more than 100 years.
 
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Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. See how The Episcopal Church’s Office of Global Partnerships builds bridges beyond ourselves, including in South Africa. Learn more about how Church Pension Group has been a stable presence in the Church for more than 100 years. Check out Archbishop Thabo’s book, Faith & Courage: Praying with Mandela. Don’t forget to post on social media how you’re PRAYing this week, using #WayofLove.

Working and Praying with Archbishop Thabo Makgoba

In this episode, Bishop Curry talks with legendary leader Ruby Sales about her long and enduring work for civil rights and freedom in the United States. The two discuss how she was introduced to these movements, her search for a calling, and the potential of The Episcopal Church to lead in honest racial justice and reconciliation.
To Go on the Way of Love is to cross boundaries, listen deeply, and live like Jesus. To do any of these things, and to have any hope of healing, we need to be able to tell each other the truth and go, as Ruby Sales says, “where it hurts.”
Bishop Curry and Sales discuss how going where it hurts led to an encounter with Jonathan Myrick Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian whose ministry in Lowndes County, Alabama would lead to his martyrdom and her decades-long legacy of justice-making. They describe seeing past a dualistic understanding of history and toward a spiritual revolution that can actually affect change in society.
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Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. Consider where you and your congregation can Go through Becoming Beloved Community NOW. Watch our most recent episode of Traveling the Way of Love: Liverpool. Don’t forget to post on social media how you're GOing this week, using #WayofLove.

Going Where It Hurts with Ruby Sales

In this episode, Bishop Curry talks with Richard Rohr, OFM, about what it takes to turn and follow a Christ as big as the universe, choosing the Way of Love instead of the ways of our egos. The two discuss the spiritualities of addition and subtraction and the consequences for our country and ourselves when we spend more time placing Jesus on a pedestal than we do actively following him.
The good news in all of this is that, like Fr. Rohr and Bishop Curry, we are all called by Jesus to follow the Way of Love. With God’s help, we can turn from the powers of sin, hatred, fear, injustice, and oppression toward the way of truth, love, hope, justice, and freedom. It is this reorienting of our whole selves - body, mind, and soul - on the love and life of Jesus that leads us away from cynicism and into freedom.
This episode of The Way of Love podcast is sponsored by Church Divinity School of the Pacific.
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Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. Listen to Richard Rohr’s Another Name for Everything Podcast. Join in honoring all of creation through the Good News Garden Movement. Learn more about Church Divinity School of the Pacific. Consider where you and your congregation can Turn through our free offerings around Becoming Beloved Community. Don’t forget to post on social media how you're TURNing week, using #WayofLove. 
Resources mentioned during this episode:
Reclaiming Jesus 
The Perfect Joy of St. Francis by Felix Timmermans 
The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr 
Center for Action and Contemplation  
Another Name for Everything Podcast 

Turning from Ego to Love with Richard Rohr

In this episode, Bishop Curry talks to Shane Claiborne, founder of the Simple Way and co-founder of Red Letter Christians, about the importance of spending time in the words of Jesus and allowing them to directly inform our thinking and actions. The two discuss what it means to pay particular attention to the “red letters” of the Bible – those in which Jesus is directly teaching and guiding us, even now. 
To learn on the Way of Love is to reflect on Scripture each day, especially on Jesus’ life and teachings. In a world that is only too eager to use scripture to justify cruelty, judgmentalism, and party politics, we as Christians are called to keep re-centering our lives and minds on our Lord’s words– to help bring about God’s dream for ourselves, our societies, and the whole world.
This episode of The Way of Love podcast is sponsored by Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. 
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Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. Learn about Emory University's Candler School of Theology. Hear more from Bishop Curry on an episode of Traveling the Way of Love. Try a daily meditation on Scripture like Forward Movement's Forward Day by Day. Don’t forget to post on social media how you're LEARNing this week, using #WayofLove.

Learning from the Red Letters with Shane Claiborne

In this episode, Bishop Curry talks to Jeff Chu, who tells us about his extraordinary career as a journalist, farmer, writer, editor, teacher, and Christian thinker – and how he has come to see God moving throughout those roles. Having spent time among groups of people who radically disagree – about the Church, about human sexuality, about love itself – he describes some of the lessons he’s learned along the way. 
Resting on the Way of Love is receiving the gift of God’s grace, peace, and restoration. The two reflect on storytelling, Sabbath, and the ways we are called to pause, to look back on our experiences, and to begin to understand where God has led us and is currently leading us. 
This episode of The Way of Love podcast is sponsored by Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.
After the Podcast 
Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. Discover how Church Pension Group is supporting your congregation now. Watch an episode of Traveling the Way of Love about what it means to truly rest. Consider how your congregation or ministry could use the Office of Government Relations’ Civil Discourse curriculum. Don’t forget to post on social media how you're RESTing this week, using #WayofLove. 

Rest and Restoration with Jeff Chu

In this episode, Bishop Curry talks to Teddy Reeves, the assistant curator of religion at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Reeves’ extensive work with “gOD-talk: a black millennials and faith conversation series” give him particular insight into concerning and hopeful trends for the future of Christianity in the United States.  
Blessing on the Way of Love – that is, sharing faith and unselfishly giving and serving – often involves uncomfortable – and life-giving – conversation and action. The two discuss the importance of sharing stories, joys, and concerns with each other, noting that earnestly listening to each other is the best way to move congregations and individuals forward. 
This episode of The Way of Love Podcast is sponsored by Church Pension Group. 
After the Podcast 
Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. Discover how Church Pension Group is supporting your congregation now. Get ready to practice StorySharing with the Beloved Community StorySharing Campaign. Learn about a new way of doing evangelism through Embracing Evangelism when it’s released on May 19. Don’t forget to post on social media how you're BLESSing this week, using #WayofLove. 
Subscribe now and listen each week wherever you get your podcasts or at wayoflove.episcopalchurch.org.

Blessings of Change with Teddy Reeves

In this episode, Bishop Curry sits down with the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber – a Lutheran pastor, author, and speaker from Denver, Colorado. They discuss how sharing our stories with honesty - through the “ministry of going first” - can help us cross the boundaries of loneliness and inequality – teaching us to GO in a time of intensifying hurt and division in our world. 
This episode of the Way of Love podcast is sponsored by For People, a new podcast with Bishop Rob Wright about finding and holding on to Faith in the midst of the challenges of an ever-changing world. Listen via your favorite podcast player and learn more at episcopalatlanta.org/forpeople. 
After the Podcast 
Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. Listen to Bishop Rob Wright’s new podcast, For People.  Support the life-giving work of Episcopal Migration Ministries. Consider where you and your congregation can Go through our free offerings around Becoming Beloved Community. Don’t forget to post on social media how you're GOing this week, using the hashtag #WayofLove. 

Going First with the Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber

Welcome to this brand-new season of the Way of Love Podcast with Bishop Michael Curry. This season, we’ll be bringing you even more of Bishop Curry’s conversations with faith leaders, authors, and thinkers who are committed to following the Way of Jesus in the world today. Framed by the Way of Love – those seven practices of turning, learning, praying, worshipping, blessing, going, and resting – we’ll hear stories and lessons about how each of us can grow closer to God in our daily lives.   
In this episode, Bishop Curry sits down with Jen Hatmaker to discover how, among many changes, opportunities, setbacks – and even a television show! – she and her family have paused, listened, and reoriented themselves again and again toward Jesus and his Way of Love. We’ll hear about her shift from a self-centered to an other-centered faith, and how one unconventional fast deeply impacted her. 
This episode of the Way of Love podcast is sponsored by Trinity Church Wall Street, which offers services streamed live and on demand in HD six days a week.
After the Podcast
Learn more about the Way of Love and creating your own rule of life based around the practices of Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. Read Jen Hatmaker's newest book, Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire. When you have a spare moment, drop into a beautiful service on Trinity Church Wall Street's livestream page. And don't forget to post on social media how you're turning this week, using the hashtag #WayofLove.

Making the Turn with Jen Hatmaker

As part of a special online broadcast of their Service of Holy Eucharist on the Third Sunday in Lent (March 15, 2020), Presiding Bishop Michael Curry delivered the sermon at Washington National Cathedral, remotely from his home in North Carolina.

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Special Content - Presiding Bishop Curry's March 15, 2020 Sermon from Washington National Cathedral

In this final podcast episode from our live show at Rooted in Jesus in Atlanta, Bishop Curry answers questions from our audience.
He also teams up with the Rev. Tim Schenck of Lent Madness to fill out a 2020 bracket and pick his big winner for this year's Golden Halo. If you want to follow along with that part of their conversation, we've posted a bracket link below.
At the end of the episode, we have a bittersweet announcement about a personnel transition. This is our last episode with co-host and lead producer Kyle Oliver, who is moving on to a new ministry position. Godspeed, Kyle!
We'll be on a short break with a new format just after Easter. In the meantime, check out the Hometown podcast, offered by our friends at Episcopal Migration Ministries. Hosted by Allison Duvall and Kendall Martin, this podcast features interviews with people resettled to the U.S. as refugees, history and background on refugee-producing countries, interviews with authors, and spiritual reflections from lay and clergy across the Church.
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Full Frederick Faber poem
2020 Lent Madness Bracket
Rooted in Jesus Conference
Way of Love Blog
Nine-Session Way of Love Curriculum
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