Podcast appearances and mentions of bishop robinson

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We were fortunate to have Bishop Gene Robinson with us preaching and presiding on September 29, 2024 as we continued to celebrate our tenth anniversary as a church. In his sermon, Bishop Robinson speaks of God's outrageous love for each and every one of us, and how we are called to church to be fed and nourished with that love, so we can go out and tell others of that great love.

Speaker: Bishop Diane Robinson In her sermon, Bishop Diane Robinson passionately speaks about the power and importance of giving, drawing from her personal experiences and biblical teachings. She shares her journey from a humble background, emphasizing how her mother's generous spirit, despite financial hardships, opened windows of blessings for their family. Bishop Robinson encourages the congregation to honor God through giving, highlighting that it's not just a financial act but a spiritual one that invites divine provision and blessings. 3 Discussion Questions for Community Groups: How have you experienced the impact of giving in your own life, both spiritually and materially? In what ways can we cultivate a heart of generosity, even in challenging circumstances? How does giving align with our faith and trust in God as our provider?  

CORRECTION:The original title was Bishop Robinson and that is what I called him throughout the episode. It is actually Reverend or Father, I have seen both. Also, his speech was given at the Oxford Union during a debate, not at the General Synod.Religionless Christianity Podcast Episode 168We have been wanting to share Bishop Calvin Robinson's amazing speech with you and this week, we finally get the chance. Sadly though, we first have to discuss the horrific tragedy that took place in Nashville. Very somber news but still lessons to be learned. If you enjoy the content, please consider following or subscribing and leaving a nice review. God bless!!TIME STAMPS:INTRO- 00:00NASHVILLE TRAGEDY- 08:58BISHOP ROBINSON- 25:45ARTICLES:Donald Trump- https://tinyurl.com/ycyf5dfrNashville Tragedy- https://tinyurl.com/2f452vuePODCASTS:Church of England Speech- https://youtu.be/UDsnDqFaY1MBishop Robinson Podcast- https://youtu.be/o13A6UU6IPYSERMON RECOMMENDATIONChurch of England Speech- https://youtu.be/UDsnDqFaY1MTeam Cardinall- Cardinall Contingency Solutions, LLC (teamcardinall.com)Daily devotionals Monday-FridayReligionless Christianity Podcast every SaturdayGrab a T-Shirt: Apparel — Religionless Christianity (religionlesschristianitypodcast.com)PLEASE COME JOIN US ON SOCIAL MEDIA OR CONSIDER SUPPORTING THE MINISTRY:DISCORD- https://discord.gg/W5nACNcVUxFACEBOOK- https://www.facebook.com/ReligionlessChristianityPodcastTWITTER- https://twitter.com/ReligionlessCPARLER- https://parler.com/user/ReligionlessChristianityPodcastSUPPORT THE MINISTRY:AMAZON AFFILIATE- https://amzn.to/3lV4cBPBEST BUY- https://bestbuy.7tiv.net/15JqMmBUY ME A COFFEE- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RCPodcastCHRISTIAN BOOKS- https://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/home?event=AFF&p=1222679Listen to other Podcasts on the Christian Podcast CommunityAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Bishop Robinson www.NorthwestOrlando.com

Bishop Robinson www.NorthwestOrlando.com

An archival interview with Geoffrey Robinson, a former auxiliary bishop of Sydney, who died on 29 December 2020. Bishop Robinson pushed for accountability in the Catholic Church.  

Bob joins Bishop Gene Robinson, the chaplain of the Chautauqua Institution for a special talk about his life of faith as a professional musician, father, and friend. Their remarkable CHQ Assembly conversation comes during such a difficult time for so many, and remembers how his faith in Jesus grew amidst the crisis of his daughter, Hallie’s, brain tumor and treatment. Bishop Robinson brings pastoral sensibility and keen spiritual insight. Featured music comes from Winston-Salem’s The Pharaoh Sisters and their album Civil Dawn.

Bishop Sylvester Robinson NorthwestOrlando.com

Bishop Robinson NorthwestOrlando.com

 A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli at Foundry UMC, April 14, 2019, Palm Sunday. Text: Luke 19:28-48   Anthony and I recently spent a few days in Philadelphia, the fulfillment of Anthony’s Christmas gift—he, as a history buff, wanted to explore the Museum of the American Revolution, visit Independence Hall, and soak up the American history that lives everywhere in the old city. I was interested, too, though I must admit that a more contemporary piece of history made me giddy: getting to traverse Rocky Balboa’s triumphal steps and experience that iconic view from the top of the Philadelphia Art Museum steps in person.   A number of things struck me as I took in the history of how we came to be a nation. I noticed that debates then and now are the same: big or small government, state’s rights and individual liberty relative to federal laws, tensions between those in industrial, urban centers and rural, farming communities…I was sad to see how opportunities to do right by Native American communities and enslaved Africans were either not recognized or dismissed, how the manners and customs and culture of the day were so ingrained that even in a time of great upheaval and revolution, some things were placed outside the bounds of what might be even discussed, much less changed.   The critical questions of the American revolution also sound very familiar to me in the context of what is happening in the United Methodist Church. My colleague, James Howell, made the connection between the American Revolution and our current church struggle explicit in a recent article in The Washington Post as he spoke of the current increase of sacred resistance and protest against the exclusion without representation forces as our “tea party moment.”[i] He says this moment is just beginning.   Like the days in this country following the “Boston tea party,” we United Methodists find ourselves in a moment of new creation, of radical change, of looking toward forming a new expression of Methodism for the future that might offer an inspiring opportunity to be the church we believe we’re called to be, a new way of living together that is more inclusive and just, and that can potentially encompass all those who, for whatever reason, stand against the action of General Conference. Just as those debating how to create something new at the beginning of these United States, I’ve heard the following questions arise: Who is included in the conversation and in leadership? Who’s writing the story? Who is controlling the narrative? Will we be loosely affiliated or centrally governed? What will our relationships be internationally? Who are our allies? And are we using them or truly engaging as mutual partners? If we become a new entity, what current practices will we want to change? How do we care for those who have been abused? Will we recognize and honor the full humanity of all people?   How these questions get answered makes a difference not only in the moment they are initially asked, but in all the days to follow. The weight of our decisions lands heavily on generations to come—for better or for worse.   Some of you may be wondering what any of this has to do with Palm Sunday. Well, it occurs to me that Jesus came into the world—and into Jerusalem on this day—because some things needed to be different. Jesus came with a vision for how to live together in peace with justice, a vision that challenged the status quo, a vision that was revolutionary in its emphasis on humble service, mercy, solidarity with the poor and oppressed, and liberating love. The Jesus movement was always a peaceful resistance movement, a sacred resistance movement, a movement focused on the real human lives encountered at any given moment; a movement that challenged the power-mongering, cruel, dehumanizing, greed-serving policies of imperial Rome and also challenged a religious institution that seemed to focus on human rules and hierarchies in such a way that it brought harm to the vulnerable and ignored the cries of the needy.   Jesus came preaching good news of God’s Kin-dom. And at the center of that good news is the “omni-vulnerable” love of God (as Bishop Robinson preached several weeks ago)—a love that is so vulnerable and so steadfast and so determined to never let us go, that God will suffer disappointment after disappointment—really will suffer anything—to stay close to us. And Jesus shows us this in person.   In two places in the book of Luke, we hear Jesus lament over Jerusalem. The first is found in chapter 13, where Jesus says, “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!...And I tell you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.’” (Lk 13:34-35)   Today, the crowds cry out this refrain—Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!—but Jesus knows that he is still entering a community unwilling to receive what he offers. He weeps over the city saying, “If you… had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes… you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.” (Lk 19:42-44, excerpt)   When Jesus came to Jerusalem it was a moment of decision, a time when those in power, those doing harm, those not paying attention, those sitting on the sidelines—when those and all people could have turned toward Jesus with open hearts and minds and arms. It was a revolutionary moment, a moment when something different could have happened. A new creation was being offered. A new vision of loving and just community was revealed. Jesus offered us the very heart of God. We had it all in that moment. And we didn’t recognize it. We weren’t willing to receive it. Long before he entered the city, Jesus knew what he was walking into, knew the outcome. I wonder, though, if he kept hoping that he might be wrong, kept hoping that maybe people would finally see that money and violence and status and control were truly no match for the power of love and mercy and humble service and friendship. // Any hope Jesus may have held seems to dissolve when, as he rode into town, some of the religious leaders demanded that he silence the cries of hope rising from those on the margins… It was after that, we’re told, that Jesus wept.   I have this fantasy of Jesus lamenting for a third time, a lament that emerges as he remembers what happened on that day he rode a donkey into Jerusalem and in the week that followed, as he remembers those who claimed to love him and yet turned away and denied him, those to whom he had entrusted the most who fell away and fell asleep… And I hear him in my mind picking up the broken-hearted words of Adele and making them his own: “The scars of your love remind me of us / They keep me thinking that we almost had it all / The scars of your love they leave me breathless, I can’t help feeling / We could have had it all / Rolling in the deep / You had my heart inside of your hand / And you played it to the beat”[ii]   This imaginary third lament is, in some ways, even more heartbreaking than the first two because it is not only directed toward those days we read about in the Bible, but continues right up until today.  Because imperial values of money, violence, status, and control are still seen as the superpowers in most quarters. Because religious institutions continue to do harm to the most vulnerable and ignore or try to silence the voices of those on the margins. Jesus’ third lament continues because, even though we know all that transpires during Holy Week, even after thousands of Easters, we still find ourselves in moments of new creation and revolution and sacred resistance—in the church and in society—having to wonder whether we will finally this time recognize the visitation of the Lord, whether we will perceive God’s alternative vision for a new thing, whether we will honor the full humanity of all God’s beloved children, whether we will do things not just differently, but more justly and thoughtfully and lovingly than we have done in the past, whether we will stay awake and not fall away from the vulnerable and the brave or from the hard task to which we are called, whether we will encourage rather than silence those whose voices have not been heard, whether we will risk following Jesus even into the most dangerous places of confrontation because God has put God’s own heart inside our hand and it’s up to us to hold it with tenderness and fierceness and courage.   We are in a moment here at Foundry and in the UMC and really in the nation, when we are being confronted with the brokenness of our world in very clear ways—we’re being challenged to grapple with the ways that religious institutions have driven people away from God, with the continued scourge of white supremacy, with the apathy toward the plight of the poor and of the creation gasping for air, and with the determination of well-funded hate-mongers to deny and punish the beautiful created nature of LGBTQ people.  I believe God is up to something in this crucible time… In moments like the one we’re in, we have a beautiful possibility to participate in God’s loving and saving work of mending and making new. We—collectively—have a history of blowing it.   The good news, however, is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow: no matter how we falter and fail, God’s love, revealed to us most fully in Jesus, remains steadfast. God is going to keep loving us and reaching out to us and trying to get through to us until Christ comes again in final victory, love, and justice and we truly “have it all.”   We hold God’s heart in our hands. What are we going to do with it this time? I pray we don’t crucify.     [i] https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/03/29/us-methodist-leaders-lay-plans-resist-anti-gay-marriage-vote/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3afdcfb60e9f [ii] Adele Adkins, Paul Richard Epworth, https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/adele/rollinginthedeep.html

On March 28th, Bishop James D. Robinson of South Philadelphia’s Yesha Ministries, which is located on 23rd & Snyder Ave, will host a press conference to announce the formation of The Brotherly Love Project. The Bishop’s new community-focused and media-integrated-venture is the result of a controversial interaction with Philadelphia police officers on January 3rd of 2019. On that day, Bishop Robinson saw his son had been pulled over by two white female cops at Broad and Christian Streets. At his South Philadelphia studio, Bishop Robinson sat down with me to talk about the January encounter with police, his project’s forthcoming launch, the need to address racism head on, police officers not knowing the law, how President Trump embodies the heart of the nation, whether black city officials make life better for black people, and the intended outcomes of the Brotherly Love Project. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/floodthedrummer/support

Retired Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, author of God Believes in Love and a fellow of the Center for American Progress, joins the program on this week. Bishop Robinson is also known for his public stance on issues of equality and faith, and for being the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church. During the third segment, Bishop Craig Bergland (www.bishopcraig.com) joins the conversation.

Interview with Gene Robinson, the first openly gay man elected as an Episcopal Bishop. His consecration was followed by a split in the church over homosexuality. OutCaster David talks with Bishop Robinson about how he was elected, the split in the church, marriage equality, the increasing visibility and acceptance of transgender people in the church, and Mr. Robinson's new book on marriage equality.