The Ninth Bishop of Texas

Monday, March 7, 2022

7 Sunday Epiphany

Feb. 20, 2022

7 Sunday Epiphany

Good Shepherd, Friendswood

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Blessings – Re-open and Re-dedicate

Feb. 20, 2022

Blessings – Re-open and Re-dedicate

St. Thomas, Houston

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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Multiply the Love and Blessing

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Multiply the Love and Blessing," preached for St. Paul’s Woodville

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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

The Dragnet

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "The Dragnet," preached for St. Andrews Pearland.

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Thursday, February 3, 2022

Good Love'n

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Good Love'n," preached for Epiphany Calvert.

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Baptism of Our Lord

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Baptism of Our Lord," preached for SoCo Austin.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Good Love'n

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Good Love'n," preached for Epiphany Calvert.

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Baptism of Our Lord

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Baptism of Our Lord," preached for SoCo Austin.

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Monday, January 10, 2022

Trust, Risk, and Get Ready for Revelation

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Trust, Risk, and Get Ready for Revelation," preached for St. Richards Roundrock.

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Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Go Tell It On the Mountain and Everywhere

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Go Tell It On the Mountain and Everywhere," preached for Hope Houston.

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Monday, December 20, 2021

Luv Ya Blue

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Luv Ya Blue," preached for All Saints, Hitchcock.

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Sunday, December 12, 2021

Bring Me Home

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Bring Me Home," preached for St. Thomas Wharton.

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Monday, December 6, 2021

Mendacity to Audacity

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Mendacity to Audacity," preached for St. Johns Marlin.

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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Make This Advent Matter

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Make This Advent Matter," preached for Grace, Houston.

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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

The Offense of Christ the King

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "The Offense of Christ the King," preached for Holy Comforter Angleton.

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Quotes

"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process." Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Perfection, in a Christian sense, means becoming mature enough to give ourselves to others." Kathleen Norris
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." John Wesley
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried." G. K. Chesterton
"One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans." C. S. Lewis
"When we say, 'I love Jesus, but I hate the Church,' we end up losing not only the Church but Jesus too. The challenge is to forgive the Church. This challenge is especially great because the church seldom asks us for forgiveness." Henri Nouwen, Bread for the Journey
"Christians are hard to tolerate; I don't know how Jesus does it." Bono
"It's too easy to get caught in our little church subcultures, and the result is that the only younger people we might know are Christians who are already inside the church." Dan Kimball

Blog Autobiography

Husband, Father, Bishop, Author, Friend

As the son of an Episcopal priest, I grew up in churches around Houston. I have lived and worked for the Church in Austin, Temple, Houston and College Station. At Camp Allen, some of you were my counselors and some of you were my campers and now several of you serve as priests in the diocese. It was here among you, that I first heard a call to ministry. I pursued a degree in fine arts and then with the support of St. Paul's, Freeport and All Saints, Austin, I attended Virginia Theological Seminary and graduated in 1995. I was ordained at Christ Church, Temple. I have served the Diocese of Texas for more than thirty five years as a youth minister, camp counselor, priest, consultant, workshop leader, Canon to the Ordinary, and Coadjutor and Diocesan Bishop (2008).

JoAnne and I met at Camp Allen and were married in 1990. Our two beautiful girls, Caisa and Zoë, are the delight of our lives.

I am the author of Church, Unabashedly Episcopalian, Generous Community, Small Batch, and The Jesus Heist.