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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
This November, two missioners from the Blackmore Vale Deanery in Salisbury, U.K., will join nine missioners from Missouri as we travel to Lui Diocese. We depart St. Louis the day after Diocesan Convention, and I am trying to remain calm in the face of countless details that a convention and a mission trip both require. (more…)
Tags: Bishop's message, Mission, Sudan
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
 Some of the press reports about the House of Bishops action on Resolution D025 have been incomplete or, in some cases, completely misleading. Accurate coverage can be found here. And since I voted in the affirmative, and with the majority, I also offer these reflections of my own for your consideration.
First, the resolution deserves a reading in its totality, despite a tendency to separate the most newsworthy section from the rest and treat it in isolation. Five of the seven resolves in this action, for example, directly address the participation of the Episcopal Church in the Anglican Communion. While this resolution addresses the rightful place of gay men and lesbians in the common life of the Episcopal Church, that life is given context within a community of Christians larger than this Church alone. D025 addresses both inclusion and communion—and gives greater attention to issues of communion. (more…)
Tags: Bishop's message, Diocesan Governance, Discernment
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
This message was originally published in bulletin inserts available in congregations across the diocese on Easter morning.
 When the news topic turns from the worsening economy or lingering war, the next in line seems to be global climate change and the urgency of green living. These are important matters, let us be sure, but should come as no great surprise to believers in Jesus, who has come to a world worn out
already. “These last days” have been with us a good long time, to use the phrase from the opening verses of Hebrews, echoed in and made familiar by Eucharistic Prayer B.
Romans 8 tells about the entire universe groaning in anticipation of that day when it will be set free from the “bondage of decay.” The salvation made available to us in Christ, Paul writes, is not a matter apart from what will happen in all of a weary creation. Salvation is cosmic in scope, and within that scope comes your salvation, and mine. But the idea of creation broken down, in danger of falling completely apart, is nothing new. It is just rather more apparent now. (more…)
Tags: Bishop's message, Mission
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Tim Townsend, religion editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, wrote in his 4/6/09 coverage:
After the hourlong rally, Imam Muhamed Hasic of the Islamic Community Center in St. Louis said such grass-roots efforts based on interfaith organization were important “because hundreds of thousands in this state deserve to be treated better and this is where that help can begin.”
Bishop George Wayne Smith, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, agreed, saying it was up to “the faithful to care for the least of these.”
“Personally, I can do nothing other than that, and I will be asking Episcopalians in the pews to do the same,” he said. -more
Pam Dolan wrote in her Civil Religion column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
The decisions that our state government makes during these next few weeks regarding the 2010 budget will have real and lasting consequences for everyone in the state, but no persons will be more directly affected than the poor, the disabled, children, and the elderly. In other words, those very people for whom we are most responsible, if we wish to be a just and compassionate society. -more
A set of photographs from the Rally on our diocesan flickr page, flickr.com/diocesemo
Attorney Robert Crowe blogged the Rally at St Louis Daily Photo Blog
Tags: Bishop's message, Blog, Communication, Media, Picture
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Contents:
- Bishop Smith: Resurrection, Creation and Mission
- Bishop Greg Rickel and Flower Festival: Asking the Right Questions- An Economic Catastrophe is a terrible thing to waste
- Upcoming Diocesan Youth Ministry events
- Introduction to Happening
- Episcopal School for Ministry Summer Term Courses
090412SundaySeek.pdf: This is an 8.5 x 11, landscape oriented, one page, both sides, black and white pdf. The design includes overlays and screens (lightly shaded graphic elements behind text).
Some printers have difficulty rendering clean copy with the underlays, so we are also offering a simplified version: 090412SundaySeeksimple.pdf
Tags: Bishop's message, Episcopal School for Ministry, Youth
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
As you may know, our state legislators are currently authoring this coming year’s budget. These are challenging and uncertain times; there are complex issues surrounding our state’s budgeting process and unknown consequences of spending or not spending federal stimulus money. The Missouri House of Representatives has sent its version of the budget to the Senate, for several weeks of hearings and meetings. Final passage deadline is May 8. The Governor signs the negotiated budget into law before our state’s fiscal year begins on July 1.
I am joining a diverse, nonpartisan group of faith leaders to call upon the Missouri State Assembly to consider carefully our funding of vital services for our most vulnerable neighbors, family members, and fellow citizens. It is time for people of faith to say clearly that as Followers of Jesus Christ we cannot allow the “least of these” – children, seniors, the disabled – to suffer, particularly in this time of economic crisis. The teaching of Jesus – the Beatitudes (Matthew 5, Luke 6), the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10), the healings that Jesus performed in all of the Gospels– compel us to speak out. (more…)
Tags: Bishop's message, Mission
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