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Vicky Gene Robinson[a] (born May 29, 1947 in Fayette County, Kentucky) is a former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as bishop diocesan in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he served as Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of New Hampshire.

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I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

People, Principle, Principles, Rule, Says, Speaks Out

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.

Government, Moving, Perceive, Toward, Truth, Views

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

Believe, Hard, I Believe, Justice, Talk

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

Jesus, Risking, Save, Sometimes, Want, Worth

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story

Lambeth, Stories, Story, Telling

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

Church, Historically, Institutions, Moves, Moving, Slow

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.

Changing, Church, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday

I've long been really intrigued with what is the. . . proper role of faith and religion in public life.

Long, Roles, Intrigued, Proper, Public, Life

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

Gay, Church, Bishops, Enormously, Elected

It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the nature of God. And the reason I believe gay and lesbian people are spiritual people is that we too have participated in vulnerability and self-disclosure, especially in the process of coming-out. When someone shares with you who they really, really are, it is a special offering. To do so when it risks rejection is a profound, holy gift.

Believe, Heart, Participated, Process, Reason, Spiritual

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.

Body, Our World, Partial, Understanding, Understanding God

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?

Box, Brother, Scripture, Static, Unable, Views

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Stability, Interest, Society, Marriage

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.

Believe, Humbled, Moving, Teaching, Thing