Bishop's Weekly Address

I am praying for the laity and clergy of the Mountain Sky Conference as we prepare for Sunday worship. This week the cabinet meeting in Salt Lake City for a three day retreat following jurisdictional conference. Once again, the good people of First UMC provided generous hospitality which included our meeting space and delicious home-cooked lunches (thank you, First UMC friends!). In the basement, there were two tables upon which sat sheets of wood. As the days passed and the work at those ...

I am praying for the laity and clergy of the Mountain Sky Conference as we prepare to come together for worship. Yesterday, the Spanish Language/Cultural Immersion trip ended with a day in Mexico City. One of the places we visited was the Museum of Anthropology. The number of items held by the museum was quite impressive. Thousands of years of human cultures were on display. As I studied the remnants of one civilization after another, there was a thread through all of them: the role of faith ...

I am praying for the laity and clergy of the Mountain Sky Conference as we prepare ourselves to come together for worship on Sunday. I recently read an article that quoted NYC pastor Rev. Michael Keller: “We’ve become less of a forgiving culture.” Everywhere we turn, we see the truth of this statement. Fuses are short. Tempers are hot. Our willingness to assume good intentions even when another’s action might have unintended consequences that inconvenience or confuse us is getting thinner and thinner.