John Kydd to Be Appointed Missioner for Climate Care and Climate Justice
From Bishop Rickel: Dear Ones, I am very pleased to announce that I will be appointing John Kydd to the position of Missioner for Climate Care and Climate Justice in…
Bishop Rickel Speaks Out on Climate Change at Lambeth
This from the UK Baptist Times Baptists speak out – at the Lambeth Conference! Dr David Golding CBE and Mark Francis, members of Whitley Bay Baptist Church and Trafalgar Road…
Lambeth Conference 2022, Canterbury, England, August 4, 2022
A reflection by Bishop Rickel on the Lambeth Conference, published on his blog, bishoprickel.com
Lambeth Conference 2022 – Reflection with Trepidation
Dear Ones, Lambeth Conference 2022 looms. I leave on Monday to travel to this most usual but hardly met every decade event. The last one was in 2008 and I…
Special Edition News Service from the Bishop
A Message from Bishop Rickel July 15, 2022 Bishop Rickel reflects on his time as Bishop of Olympia and shares plans for the future. Transcript of Bishop Rickel’s Video Letter…
Bishop Rickel’s Statement on The Rev Rachel Taber-Hamilton’s Election to House of Deputies
Dear Good People of the Diocese of Olympia, I am so pleased to let you know, what many of you already know, our very own the Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton was…
Bishop Rickel’s Statement Regarding Overturning Roe vs. Wade
Dear People of the Diocese of Olympia, I am just now on board a plane flying back from the Holy Land Pilgrimage which had been postponed twice due to the…
Bishop Rickel’s Statement regarding Credible Threats Against Clergy and Houses of Worship
Bishop Rickel’s Statement regarding Credible Threats Against Clergy and Houses of Worship June 24, 2022 Dear Ones, With the overturning of Roe V Wade today we have just received this…
Bishop Rickel’s Statement on the Shooting at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Vestavia Hills, Alabama
Dear Ones, As the Bishop of Alabama says in her first words sent to the Church, what we all thought was impossible, or hoped was, came true today. And, of…
Juneteenth, 2022
Bishop Rickel offers his reflections on Juneteenth, sometimes referred to as America’s Second Independence Day. “Let this be a day when we celebrate progress, but also a day we don’t…
