Articles & Writing from Bishop David Walker

The Ascension is the final event in the life of Jesus. It is the moment when Jesus returns to the Father. However’ it’s meaning is best understood in terms of what it meant for the disciples. The Gospel of Luke Is the one who tells us most about this event…

Moon Shell, who named you? Some intuitive woman I like to think. I shall you another name – Island shell. I cannot live forever on my island. But I can take you back to my desk in Connecticut. You will sit there and fasten your smooth circles winding inward to…

Migration is not an easy or a pleasant thing for a tiny bird to face. It must turn deliberately from solid land, from food, shelter, a certain measure of security, and fly across an ocean unfriendly to its life, destitute of everything it needs. We make much of the heroism…

Reading the Gospels with Bishop David Walker: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Click to Register! Bishop David Walker has spent a lifetime reflecting on the Gospels, studying Scripture, and exploring how they guide Christian discipleship. Now, he invites you to join him in a series of enriching discussion on the…

Ash Wednesday’s clear message is one of invitation to enter forty days of prayer, penance and almsgiving in preparation for our greatest feast day, Easter! In the early Church these forty days were a time of retreat for those about to be baptised.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s…