How 'Greenleaf' Brought Me Closer to the Almighty (Guest Blog)

These are strange times. It’s Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, and I am genuflecting, responsively reading to a distant service, streamed into my office — socially distanced from a congregation that isn’t there — praying and singing the hymns of the Torah while sitting in my home office … and thinking of Jesus. How can I not? I picture Bishop Greenleaf standing at the holy ark, purple satin robes swaying like an ecumenical curtain while Deborah Joy Winans in the role of Charity Greenl...