The Ninth Bishop of Texas

Sunday, September 14, 2008

You Tube Video from The Diocese of Texas

Click "You Tube" video for Bishop Wimberly's message to the Diocese Texas on Sunday morning. Bishop Wimberly, Canon Doyle, Bob Biehl drove to Diocesan Center, Houston by way of several congregations.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Hitchiking The Gospel of St. Mark

Click on Hitchhiking The Gospel of St. Mark and it will redirect you to the new website for Bible Study Materials for the Gospel of Mark.

Hurricane Ike

We met yesterday as a staff and worked on insuring we were prepared. We went over the list of congregations and clergy and their locations and plans.

We will meet on Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. to assess damages.

For information please go to: www.epicenter.org

Bishop Coadjutor Ordination

Follow the Link to get the latest Ordination Information.

Friday, November 22, 2008, 10:30 a.m., at St. Martin's Episcopal Church, Houston

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Set the Date: Ordination Date Given

Dear All,

The Presiding Bishop's office has let us know that, pending the consents of bishops and standing committees, I will be ordained on November 22, 2008.

The service is to be held at St. Martin's, Houston.

Please mark your calendars and join us for what promises to be a great day in the life of the diocese and church.

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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.