Gene Robinson
Gene Robinson
Vicky Gene Robinsonis an American retired bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as diocesan bishop in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he served as Canon to the Ordinary to the VIII Bishop of New Hampshire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth29 May 1947
CountryUnited States of America
yesterday church today
Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.
moving church institutions
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
gay thinking church
I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.
confused home bees
The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.
moving views government
When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.
passion hard-times devices
Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
movement abiding doe
The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.
believe justice i-believe
We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do
speaks-out people principles
I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.
thinking reflection honest
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life,
couple gay rights
It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples,
believe moving teaching
I believe God is doing a new thing in the world. God is always moving us to include more people in the kingdom. God has taught us that about people of color, about women, and now I think God is teaching that about gay and lesbian folk. And I am humbled and privileged that I might be playing a very small part in that grand and wonderful plan of God's.
understanding-god our-world body
Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.
brother views tasks
My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?