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Transcript: Greetings beloved in Christ. I hope that you are well on this day. I have been struggling with the aftereffects of a terrible cold, and so I ask your indulgence and your forgiveness for the quality of my voice and this video. We are in the middle of February and February is Black History Month. And it is [...]

Transcript: Greetings, beloved in Christ. I hope that you are well on this day. February 13th is the day set aside by the Episcopal Church to celebrate the life and ministry of Absalom Jones. Absalom Jones was born in 1746 to enslaved parents, and he taught himself to read mostly by studying the New Testament. At the age of [...]

Transcript: Greetings, beloved in Christ. I hope that you are well on this day. Lately, I've been asked a lot about Episcopal identity and what it means. And if you've been around the Episcopal Church for any amount of time, I'm sure you have heard reference to a three-legged stool, scripture, reason and tradition. When we say scripture, we [...]

Transcript: Greetings, beloved in Christ. I mentioned in a previous video that my intention for 2025 was to be an encourager. As I have heard from many people, both yesterday and today, it seems like we could all use a little encouragement. And so for my video this week, I'm going to share with you one of my favorite [...]

Transcript: Rt. Rev. Kym Lucas: Greetings, beloved in Christ. I hope that you are well on this day. I am curious, what is on your heart today, this week? As this new year has started, what is on your heart? I will confess to you that my heart is heavy, as much of the diocese of Los Angeles is [...]

Transcript: Greetings, beloved in Christ. 2025 has begun. And I'm not sure what your tradition is for marking the new year. But for me, my tradition is instead of setting forth a resolution, that is something that I should do or accomplish, I try to set forth an intention that is about who I want to be in this [...]

Transcript: Greetings, beloved in Christ. I hope that you are well on this day. This coming Sunday is the final Sunday in the season of Advent. As many of you know, I have been walking this Advent journey of preparation with poets. As we anticipate the coming of Christmas, so we contemplate the miracle of incarnation, I want to [...]

Transcript: Greetings, Beloved in Christ. This week's video comes from our beautiful camp and retreat center, Cathedral Ridge. I'm here meeting with the Bishop's Advisory Council on Ordained Ministry, and working to discern with faithful, faithful nominees, what God's call is on their life. We are coming up on the Third Sunday of Advent, which is Gaudete Sunday, it [...]

Transcript: Greetings beloved in Christ. I hope that you are well on this day. As someone who loves the season of Advent, I am finding this year's transition from Thanksgiving to first Advent, in three short days, a little jarring, and perhaps you are too. But I'm trying to live into the invitation of Advent, the invitation that is [...]

Transcript: Greetings, beloved. In Christ. The holiday season is fast approaching, and if you are finding yourself a little lacking in holiday spirit, I encourage you to go and serve someone across the Episcopal Church in Colorado, we have amazing outreach ministries from Grace's Kitchen in Cortez to Laundry love in Colorado Springs from the Ministry of St. George's [...]

Transcript: Greetings, beloved in Christ. It's the morning after our presidential election and I am feeling all sorts of things. If you are feeling those things, I invite you to hold them, to offer them as a representation of your spirit to the Lord your God. And I offer you these words. Will you continue in the apostles teaching, [...]

Transcript: Bishop Kym Lucas: I'm Kym Lucas, bishop of the Episcopal Church in Colorado. Bishop Meghan Johnston Aelabouni: I'm Meghan Johnston Aelabouni, bishop of the Rocky Mountain Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Bishop Kristin Stoneking: And I'm Kristin Stoneking, bishop of the Mountain Sky Conference of the United Methodist Church. Bishop Kym Lucas: Together as ecumenical [...]

Transcript: Hello, beloved in Christ. Today, I am bringing you greetings from the planning for sabbatical discernment retreat here in Richmond, Virginia. I am gathered with my fellow bishops here, and we were given three questions to ponder this week. Who are you? What is your purpose? And what do you need? The first question was fairly easy for [...]

Transcript: Rev. Kym Lucas: Greetings beloved in Christ. I hope that you are enjoying the beauty and the blessing of this day. From the time I was little, my maternal grandmother, who died when I was 21, instilled in me the importance of voting. She contended that voting was a civic privilege and that too many people had struggled [...]

Transcript: Greetings, beloved in Christ. It is October and that means it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And as is my habit, I am bringing you another video emphasizing the importance of early detection and regular mammograms. Did you know that there are different types of breast cancer, and that the type of breast cancer can dictate everything from [...]

Transcript: Greetings beloved in Christ. I hope that you are well on this day. I know that you like me, have seen the pictures, the videos of all of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene. For me, most heartbreaking were the pictures of Asheville underwater. I grew up going to Asheville with my family. I grew up going to [...]