The Ninth Bishop of Texas: December 2024

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Rest ye merry

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Rest ye merry!" held at Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, TX.

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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Merry Christmas - All Is Not As It Appears

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Merry Christmas - All Is Not As It Appears" held at Christ Church Episcopal Church, Cedar Park, TX.

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Monday, December 16, 2024

Advent 3C

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Advent 3C" held at Grace Episcopal Church, Georgetown, TX.

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Advent 2C

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Advent 2C" held at Christ Church Episcopal Church, Temple, TX.

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Monday, December 2, 2024

Advent 1C - Awake to Joy and Life and Light

Listen to Bishop Doyle's sermon, "Advent 1C - Awake to Joy and Life and Light" held at St. James Episcopal Church, Taylor, TX.

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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.