Blessed Easter Season to everyone! I pray that your Holy Week and Easter Sunday were filled with the presence of our Risen Lord, the joy that only Christ is able to bring to our lives, and the glorious glimpses of the reign of...[more]
Congratulations to the Desert Southwest Conference for endowing a chair in Health Sciences for Africa University! With God's faithful help, you did it! On February 22, 2012 your Africa University Mission Team participated in the...[more]
In a time of ongoing economic recession and global insecurity there is good news! The good news is that what we need and what the world needs is available to all. In illness, in broken relationships, in poverty, in loneliness,...[more]
As always life and ministry are full! It is all good, thanks be to God! I am in the middle of some very interesting conversations and experiences. A pastor and I are in a conversation about what it means to be a community of...[more]
Have I told you how proud I am of you? There are so many wonderful expressions of faithful discipleship all across the Desert Southwest for which I daily give God thanks. Thirty five of our congregations are launching out on a...[more]
The Desert Southwest Conference will celebrate its 27th annual session on June 23-26, 2011, at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel in Glendale, Arizona. What a privilege it has been for me to serve as your presiding officer over your...[more]
At the beginning of this year the state of Arizona experienced yet one more tragedy. We have had one tragedy after another in the way that our political leaders have treated immigrants, have failed the people of our state...[more]
We raise our prayers for U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and others who were affected by the senseless shooting that occurred today in Tucson, Arizona. We mourn the deaths of those whose lives were cut short in this moment...[more]
The angel said, "Don't be afraid! Look! I bring good news to you - wonderful, joyous news for all people. Your Savior is born today in David's city. He is Christ the Lord." Luke 2:10-11
It has been another...[more]
A couple of weeks ago I received an early morning email of concern from an ecumenical leader. He directed me to a YouTube site in which three of our United Methodist clergy persons were making statements against the local diocese...[more]
