For People with Bishop Rob Wright

Send us Fan Mail Bishop Wright's sermon "Anchored for the Future" given at the 120th Annual Council of the Diocese of Atlanta. Support the show Follow us on IG and FB at Bishop Rob Wright. 

Send us Fan Mail This week's For People is based on Bishop Wright's opening worship sermon given on November 6, 2026, at the 120th Annual Council of the Diocese of Atlanta.  What if Christian confidence is not about recovering an era, but about trusting a living person?  Drawing from Bishop Wright’s sermon on Hebrews 6, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversation about hope as an “anch...

Send us Fan Mail Political life can feel like a constant pressure to pick a side, assume the worst, and speak with total certainty. But God calls us to find common ground in a divided world; to love our neighbors as ourselves. In this episode, just days before the midterm elections, Bishop Wright has a conversation with Erle Newton III, District Attorney for Bartow and Gordon Counties, and Kelley...

Send us Fan Mail Opposition can do one of two things: it can turn us into smaller, harsher versions of ourselves, or it can uncover what we truly believe about God, power, and love.  In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversation about opposition, drawing from 1 Thessalonians 2:1–8 and Paul's example of proclaiming the Gospel in the face of resistance. What does it mean to sta...

Send us Fan Mail Steadfast can sound like a personality trait you either have or you don’t, but Paul uses it as a lived description of hope that keeps its seat when life tries to shove you off course.  In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversation about 1 Thessalonians 1:1–10 and what “steadfast” actually looks like in real Christian life: spiritually stable, determined, and resil...

Send us Fan Mail “Whatever” is usually the word you use when you’re done listening. In Philippians 4:1-9, Paul flips is the other way. Paul turns “whatever” into a wide-open invitation to grow your moral imagination and to pursue what is honorable, just, pure, pleasing, and commendable. The surprising twist is that those words are not a small box. They are guardrails for a bigger life with God and...

Send us Fan Mail 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. From his first performances in church to the way he lea...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Hope shows up here as more than comfort. ...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Hebrews 6:19 names godly hope as an anchor. That hope is built on a clear conviction: God is alive, so the universe is not random and the story is not...

Send us Fan Mail Delay is one of the quickest ways to test what we really trust. When God’s timing does not match our urgency, we can start to panic, negotiate, or replace faith with something that feels more responsive. In Exodus, Moses is “delayed” on the mountain, and the newly freed community chooses a God made of gold because it feels available right now. In this episode, Melissa and Bishop W...

Send us Fan Mail Confidence can sound like having all the right answers. But what if real confidence is quieter and stronger: the settled kind that comes from knowing you’re held by God, not propped up by your resume? We find this in Philippians 3:4b–14, Paul’s blunt before-and-after story. He had lineage, learning, and religious credibility, yet he walks away from “earning” and toward a new cente...

Send us Fan Mail “Incline your ears” sounds gentle, but it is a direct challenge to the way most of us live. We say we want peace, wisdom, and healthy community, yet we often move through the day like we know better than God. Psalm 78 names a different path: humility as an active posture, a decision to bend our attention and our choices toward what is trustworthy and timeless. In this episode, Mel...

Send us Fan Mail Two names most people have never heard may be the reason the Exodus story even has a future. Shiprah and Puah are Hebrew midwives trapped inside Pharaoh’s economy and Pharaoh’s fear, yet they refuse to participate in the empire’s violence. Their “no” is quiet, costly, and courageous, and it becomes the kind of leadership that erodes tyranny from the ground up.  In this episode, Me...

Send us Fan Mail Your words don’t just “slip out” when you’re stressed. They come from somewhere. Jesus shows us in Matthew 15: what goes into the mouth passes through, but what comes out reveals the heart and can defile, degrade, and damage the people around us. That idea lands like a mirror, especially if you care about faith, leadership, and the kind of community you’re building at home, at wor...

Send us Fan Mail The scariest part of a storm isn’t always the wind and waves, it’s what fear convinces us we’re seeing. When the disciples spot Jesus walking on the water in Matthew 14:22–33, they don’t call him their friend. They call him a ghost.  In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversation about anxiety, interpretation, and what steady faith looks like when life feels like i...

Send us Fan Mail Scarcity is loud. It tells us there's not enough money, not enough compassion, not enough hope, and not enough time to help. In our final Summer Shorts episode, The Rev. Kenya Thompson, Vicar of Church of the Common Ground, offers a different narrative rooted in the miracle of Matthew 14:13–21, where Jesus feeds the 5,000. Miracles, she reminds us, are signs of God's pre...

Send us Fan Mail Pain has a way of making everything feel personal, like the universe is singling you out. Holle Tubbs, diocesan youth missioner for the Diocese of Atlanta, joins us for our Summer Shorts series to talk about a different path: reaching for God without turning faith into a bargain for control. In this episode, Melissa and Holle explore the relationship between faith, humility, and a...

Send us Fan Mail You can ruin a garden by being too confident, and you can damage a church the same way. The Rev. Michael White joins us for our Summer Shorts series with a story that starts small, weeding a tidy plot, and lands right in the middle of Matthew 13: sometimes what we label a weed is actually the vine that is meant to grow. That simple mistake opens a bigger conversation about Christi...

Send us Fan Mail Over the next four weeks, For People will feature special guests from the Diocese of Atlanta: the Rev. Matt Babcock, the Rev. Michael White, Holle Tubbs, the Rev. Kenya Thompson. Each guest will write the For Faith weekly devotional and join For People host Melissa Rau to dive deeper into their reflections. Join us each week as they share their stories and insights. In the first g...

Send us Fan Mail Unconditional love gets talked about like it has no edges, but that kind of “anything goes” love can turn selfish and chaotic fast. Love has a shape. When we pay attention to Jesus’ words and actions, a pattern emerges that you can actually practice in real life, from conflict and apology to courage, sharing, forbearance, and justice.  In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright ha...

Send us Fan Mail The loudest voices want you to believe the only way forward is to pick a side and dig in. Jesus shows us another way.  In this episode, Bishop Wright has a conversation with Bishop Sarah Fisher, 9th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina, about a different kind of strength: the courage to stay centered on Jesus when everything around you begs for distraction. Bishop Sara...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus does not look at a hurting world and offer merely technical solutions. He sees the deeper wound, speaks to the heart of it, and sends ordinary people to carry hope into ordinary places. In Matthew 9:35–10:8, Jesus shows us three kinds of sheep: the harassed and helpless, the lost, and those sent among wolves. At every intersection of life, this passage asks us to decide who...

Send us Fan Mail 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 someone who just lost a job and needs help for a season. Loving like Jesus means serving those who are the most vulnerable in...

Send us Fan Mail 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? You’ll hear a clear, memorable vision of Episcopal leadership as itinerant service, scripture-shaped preaching, guarding th...

Send us Fan Mail 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?  In this episode, Bishop Wright has a conversation with Senator Jon Ossoff about faith, leadership, and what it takes to build a better world when the headlines...