Watermark
Thirty Hour Famine
Last weekend, we had the Thirty Hour Famine at the Cathedral. That is a youth event, where the youth learn about world hunger while fasting for thirty hours. The fast is a fast from foods, but we could drink some broth and fruit juice. It also involved doing some service projects. We started fasting at [...]
Formation | Youth
Walking with Youth
Today as I took a short walk to clear my head from hours of staring at the computer screen, the sky was a clear vivid blue with white clouds painted sporadically throughout the scene. Over to the west, dark clouds were starting to form, waiting to slowly move through the Spokane area with yet another [...]
Bishop's Notes
Reflections on Easter
Easter was in the air and in its fullness of festive celebration at St. John’s Cathedral on Sunday, where I presided at the Eucharist; it was also throughout the Diocese in our widespread vibrant congregations.
Reflecting on uplifting reports I’ve received, I am aware of the great distance we traveled from Maundy Thursday through Sunday morning [...]
Bishop's Notes
A sign and signs
My reflection on this past weekend is drawn to a sign and to signs. Arriving at St. Paul’s, Cheney on Sunday, I was heartened by the prominent and inviting sign of welcome outside and the signs of being poised for moving forward inside — signs evident in the community gathered for worship, fellowship, and conversation [...]
Congregational Development
Living Stones group grapples with ministry issues
I hadn’t really planned to spend five days in Des Moines, Iowa in February. But I’m glad I did.
It wasn’t the lure of Des Moines’ annual skywalk miniature golf tournament; or the excitement of sharing a hotel with hundreds of Methodist youth; or even the amazement
of being in a city where the hockey team’s mascot [...]
Bishop's Notes
Lent offers time, tools to get bearings
Now I recognize that the prospect of “Living Lent for Life” could be less than popular, specially if we consider Lent a season we simply have to get through. And if we do, a life term of Lent would be like having cold water thrown on our plans for life. Not at all a welcomed [...]
