For People with Bishop Rob Wright

Send us Fan Mail Some people hear the words "demonic activity' and they call BS. But Jesus himself walk through darkness. He met darkness - the darkness of our hearts! Bishop Wright wrote this latest For Faith in the wake of the insurrection at the US Capitol.  During the day, there were people wielding Christian flags and signs with Christian scripture. How do we get from the Jesus of N...

Send us Fan Mail “Hello Darling Today I find myself a long way from you and the children. I am at the State Prison in Reidsville which is about 230 miles from Atlanta. They picked me up from the DeKalb jail about 4 ’0 clock this morning. I know this whole experience is very difficult for you to adjust to, especially in your condition of pregnancy, but as I said to you yesterday this is the cross t...

Send us Fan Mail 2020 was tough, and guess what? We aren't out of the woods yet! In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversation about the journey ahead and the journey of the wise men as they followed a star looking for Jesus. What can we learn from these wise men?  What is your star in this new year?  What is your journey? In the Epiphany of Jesus, there were and still are qu...

Send us Fan Mail Mary has a thing or 2 to say about God in her song/poem/rap the Magnificat. In it, Mary talks of a God that topples over conceit and pride. A God that elevates the meek. A God that says the hungry will feast and those that normally feast will learn what it means to be hungry. To some then and now these are dangerous words! In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversa...

Send us Fan Mail We live in a society that gives a gold star for the right answer, but what about good questions? John the Baptist and Jesus were both master question askers. And when we wrestle with tough questions, we gain clarity in living out our lives as followers of Jesus. Can you imagine the questions God asked of John the Baptist that gave him the clarity to go ask questions like "wou...

Send us Fan Mail No one wants to be labeled a fool or foolish. Who likes the feeling of being duped? But what about being a fool for Jesus? What this means is we can really only know real life if we are willing to give our lives to God. And that you can only possess if you share. Foolish, right!? In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversation on foolishness through the lens of John...

Send us Fan Mail Why do many people want to talk about spirituality but not God? In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversation on this question and others generated from an excerpt, see below, of Rob Bell's book Everything is Spiritual by Rob Bell. “The form, the teaching, the truth moves you beyond the form. Like there’s an arc, or a movement, or a trajectory in the words. I...

Send us Fan Mail Bishop Wright released these steps to take action in healing our nation on 11.9.20. In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright unpack these steps. 1. Pray for the nation; pray for President Trump and for President-elect Biden. 2. Be kind in speech and actions especially with those with whom you disagree. 3. Grant Jesus’ request to “ pray for enemies and bless those that curse you....

Send us Fan Mail What is it about being a follower of Jesus that lends some to study the bible for their own agenda and others to imagine multiple frameworks? If you really think about it, we use our imagination when we read the bible. We transport ourselves in a time machine and enter into an ancient world full of stories written by people with imagination!  "The only way to understand scrip...

Send us Fan Mail Halloween is here, so what better thing to talk about than zombies. Webster's dictionary refers to a zombie as, "someone who appears to be lifeless and unresponsive to their surroundings." Strangely enough, you don't have to look far to see people claiming their love for Jesus in one breath speak malice towards other loudly in the next. Just look at how the cro...

Send us Fan Mail Following, proclaiming, and loving like Jesus has always evoked opposition. And especially from fellow followers of Jesus! St. Paul makes it abundantly clear in his letter to the Thessalonians. St. Paul reminds his readers that the very first thing that causes opposition is speaking in a fashion of pleasing God above pleasing people. This takes real-world practice and plenty of co...

Send us Fan Mail God is incredibly flexible. God is never limited in God's range of motion! And God has given us great motions for us to improve our own range of motion. These motions are compassion, generosity, and kindness. But what happens if we don't use the exercises given to us like prayer? We can lose our own range of motion as Christians. In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wrigh...

Send us Fan Mail Atheists is an uncomfortable word for followers of Jesus to hear. In goes against the very belief in the one, we call God that we love and loves us without limitation! But what happens when the church chooses sides in political partnership over the love of God? Christians functionally become atheists. The Church was founded to put trust in God and not in politicians and political...

Send us Fan Mail Some of us have got some pretty impressive resumes: schools, organizations, companies, and boards. St. Paul had a pretty impressive resume too: right family, right location, right kind of spiritual practice.  He clearly commends for the Christian is a second page for our resumes - a page 2. This page is the list of things we have lost or sacrificed solely because we choose to foll...

Send us Fan Mail If most Christians are honest, we fail to put God in the center of our lives. In many cases, people choose to themselves at the center of narratives. The old joke that God made us in God's image and we turned around and made God in our image stands true! In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright talk about centering God and when we do that we are the most human we will ever...

Send us Fan Mail What is the image of God we see in our minds and how do we encounter God in this new world we are living in? If we are honest, we might find that we often fit God into a box that works with the way we view the world. "What if people were invited to come tell what they already know of God instead of to learn what they are supposed to believe? What if they were blessed for what...

Send us Fan Mail What is the image of God we see in our minds and how do we encounter God in this new world we are living in? If we are honest, we might find that we often fit God into a box that works with the way we view the world. "The problem is many of the people in need of saving are in churches and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes as people of faith, we talk more about our own lives than God. Why is that? Our humanity wants to put us and our experiences first. What would it be like if the 3 points made by every pastor when preaching was of who God is and what God wants us to do? God can do anything we if choose to say yes! In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversation about what w...

Send us Fan Mail The story of Moses, the great deliverer, really begins with his delivery from faithful women. As the Pharaoh set forth a plan to murder firstborn male children, it was Moses' mother, Jochebed, and his sister Miriam that masterminded a plan to float Moses in a basket to the house of the Pharaoh and his daughter. God's great intervention began with the defiant, genius, fai...

Send us Fan Mail Joseph was sold into slavery by his siblings! His own blood! And he finds it in himself to forgive, heal, and love the ones that hurt him the most. Throughout history, there are people that and do remember that we belong to one another - that we are siblings to and in the world. Do you live today like every person you meet is your sibling? If we are honest with ourselves and God,...

Send us Fan Mail Peter's fear sank him that long-ago morning. When he took his eyes and heart off of Jesus, it started. Fear can make faith sink. It can swallow you up. More and more we might all be feeling like that battered boat doing our best to keep the faith and make it through the night. In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversation about the fear people are experiencin...

Send us Fan Mail Charity is great, but it is a patch. Charity is what we are doing now while we are working for a more just society where everyone has enough. The overarching goal is for all of us to be filled. A society where the un-mattered matter as much as the powerful and mighty. What did Jesus teach about this? And what is the church's role? In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright ha...

Send us Fan Mail Leadership is a set of behaviors available to anyone at any time to choose and use. Of course, this means there are no leaders but people that exert leadership behaviors. The leadership of Jesus is laid out perfectly for us in the Gospels. Leadership is not a crown but the cross. In this episode, Melissa and Bishop Wright have a conversation about the leadership of Jesus and how T...

Send us Fan Mail Monuments and symbols are currently a point of discussion. A person may bring up why or why they shouldn't be removed and it quickly gets branded political. Many believe them a part of heritage. As Sheffield says in this episode, "heritage is history with all the bad parts left out". We stand at an inflection point where society is waking up and wanting to right its...

Send us Fan Mail Where do we find health if the soul of the nation is unwell? It only makes it more challenging in the midst of 2 pandemics. One being COVID-19 and the other racism. In this episode of For People, Melissa leads a conversation with Bishop Wright and special guest Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners magazine and host of Soul of the Nation, exploring the narratives of 2 pandemics, COVID-...