VPHOD New Years Message

VPHOD New Years Message

Dear Friends and Fellow Deputies, I am not a New Year’s Resolution kind of person.  I always figure that if I can’t motivate myself from within, some arbitrary date on the calendar isn’t going to do it either.  Plus, my birthday is in mid-January and that’s its own...
President’s Christmas Day Message

President’s Christmas Day Message

Dear friends in Christ, Merry Christmas! Today, in stables and cathedrals, in grand churches and humble chapels across our church, we celebrate the profound mystery of God’s promises taking flesh among us. As your president of the House of Deputies, I have spent...

President’s Interim Bodies Sermon

“Where Your Treasure Is: Finding God’s Kingdom in Times of Change” In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Yesterday, we reflected on Hilda of Whitby’s example of unifying leadership. Today, we have another incredible...

President’s Interim Bodies Opening Remarks

Good morning members of our Standing Commissions, the United Methodist Dialogue Committee, the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property, churchwide staff, and colleagues. “Lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,...