Formation | Youth
“You’re coming too!” Campers and volunteers of all ages experience the sacraments at Camp Cross
After stomping twice, over 200 leaders from around the Diocese chanted together, “I’m going to Camp Cross, and you’re coming too!” The next day, clergy and lay people from Grangeville to Oroville, from the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist to the Episcopal Churches of the Resurrection, wore badges to the closing Eucharist of Diocesan [...]
Congregational Development
Motor scooter rides open window on Advent awareness
Beware, keep alert, for you do not know when the time will come. Mark 13:33.
We’re heading into that “awareness” season again. Advent always is a call to “wake up.” To be attentive. To wait for the Lord to come.
The late Anthony DeMello, priest, retreat leader and writer, often said that most of us go through [...]
Bishop's Notes
The Bishop’s Address to the 44th Annual Convention
As I begin my eighth Bishop’s Annual Address, I would like to think out loud with you about what we are doing in this diocese and where I pray we are going. I welcome the opportunity in the context of our convention theme of “Living a Scandalous Gospel.”
Because we are already “Living with a Scandalous” [...]
