About Jim

Jim has operated his own businesses, worked for the Federal government, been  a Catholic bishop (not your standard issue, however), and a real estate developer – quite an array of interests and activities, and he has loved them all. They have given him a wide perspective from which to see life.

There is nothing Jim likes to do better than  to wrestle with big ideas, to constantly churn them in his mind, to discuss them with people of all walks of life ... and then to communicate them through speaking (to about 35,000 people per year for over 20 years) and writing. Nothing is off bounds to inspection, for Jim. 

Jim lived in the Washington, DC area all his life, but has moved to southern Florida. He loves politics, because that is a primary way people's lives can get better. He started off in politics running for local office, and ended as Joe Biden's first press secretary in the U.S. Senate.

Jim Burch, the retired Principal Bishop of The Catholic Dioceses of One Spirit, now runs the Goodness Gathering (www.GoodnessGathering.com), based on Jesus’ original “universal” spirituality of love.   

Jim Burch has been a real estate developer for several decades, and was the original developer of National Harbor on the Potomac River near Washington, DC.  His interest is in large monumental projects, to benefit all. 

Jim is married to Patty Burch, a nurse. They have 5 children, 13 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. Jim and Patty love the water, and can often be found on the water in their boat.