David Barr is associate rector at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville, TN. He has an undergraduate in English and Theology from Covenant College; a master’s in Theology and Ethics from the University of Virginia; and is completing a PhD from the University of Toronto (Wycliffe College). He is married to Caroline, a Physician Assistant and they have a son and a dog.
We see in our readings that when Jesus prays for us to be united to him and to the Father, there is then no other way we can choose if we are to be blessed, apart from the one that the Father gives Jesus.
If we genuinely seek the welfare of our cities, the work will only rightly begin as we repent and seek God’s refashioning of our lives — and that of our neighbors.
