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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Atlanta, GAThe Very Rev. Robert Wright
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Atlanta, GA
The Very Rev. Robert C. Wright serves as the tenth Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Atlanta Georgia, the oldest black Episcopal congregation in the state of Georgia.
He was born in a Catholic orphanage in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a product of the Pittsburgh Public School system. He served in the U. S. Navy as a helicopter Crew-Chief and Search and Rescue Diver. He was educated at Howard University, the Virginia Theological Seminary and Ridley Hall, Cambridge England.
He has worked as a child advocate, first for the Children's Defense Fund and later for two mayors of Washington D.C. He served as Canon Pastor and Vicar at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City. He is married to Dr. Beth-Sarah Wright and they have five children.
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Why Some People Don't Catch Fish
Luke 5:1-11
5th Sunday after Epiphany - Year C
February 07, 2010
The Very Rev. Robert Wright (TEC)I'm a city boy, so I don't know much about fishing. I don't watch the fishing channel or hang out with fishermen. All I know about fish is I like mine fried or Cajun style with some rice and vegetables on the side.
I do know a fishing story is supposed to be flattering to the fisherman. Fishermen are supposed to talk about the monster fish they hooked but that got away, or they're supposed to talk about the bait they use to make the fish just jump on your hook.
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Love Is for Grownups
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
4th Sunday after Epiphany - Year C
January 31, 2010
The Very Rev. Robert Wright (TEC)The Apostle Paul authored one of the most beautiful chapters of literature the world has ever known. You know it; they read it at nearly every wedding. Paul goes on about that crazy thing called love: "Though I speak in the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I am as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." Paul continues, "Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love," he says, "never fails." But he includes some other words in this beautiful chapter of poetry, words not as beautiful as the rest, but words all the beauty rests on.
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