It was fascinating to experience Holy Week and Easter as a bishop for the first time. It brought home to me how little of parish priesthood is the actual liturgies for those days, and how much is the planning and preparation for those liturgies and the surrounding activities. As bishop, I planned almost nothing except …
On Wednesday, I wrote a letter to the Chabad of Flagstaff offering my prayers and support after their new building was vandalized this week. In that letter, I said in part: “Anti-Semitism has no place in this world. Hatred of any people, group, or religion has no place in this world. As faithful people of …
Last week, I attended my first House of Bishops meeting at the Kanuga conference center in North Carolina. It was a fascinating week of being embraced by new colleagues, and spending time together in prayer, song, learning, and discernment. Highlights included joining the “bishops’ choir” to help lead music for our daily Eucharist and sitting …
I know it’s Lent, but I think I can give myself dispensation to say on behalf of our diocese: “Hallelujah”! I am writing from Kanuga, where I am attending the House of Bishops, a bi-annual gathering of all my new colleagues in the Episcopal Church. The whirlwind of the consecration weekend has paused to allow me …