Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral's Annual Christmas Pageant

This afternoon at four o’clock I am to be installed as your Dean and Rector. In all of Christendom there is no job that I would rather hold. You and I both are hoping that I will be good at it. Only time will tell. How will we know?

One yardstick will be growth. If we don’t attract and hold a lot more people in the pews, then I will not have been successful. Let’s let that be one measure of my ministry. By coming frequently to church and bringing friends you can help me out on my report card.

Rev. Dunkle preaches at the Installation of The Very Reverend Doctor Christoph Keller III as Twentieth Dean & Rector of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Little Rock, Arkansas

This is the full service of the Installation of The Very Rev. Dr. Christoph Keller III as Twentieth Dean and Rector of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Little Rock, Arkansas

Thank you for inviting me to your beautiful cathedral to reflect on the Widow’s Mite. I bring you greetings from the Brothers of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, the Episcopal monks, who live, pray and work in two monasteries in Massachusetts.

I am employed by the Brothers, as the Director of the Friends of SSJE. I went to work for the Brothers in 2006 to help with their fundraising; their beautiful monastery in Harvard Square was in terrible shape and needed lots of money to restore it.

So if we met socially, and I hope that I will have the pleasure of meeting many of you, and you asked me “What do you do?” I can answer, “I am a fundraiser for an order of monks.”

Eric Metaxas speaks at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral on his book, Miracles.