From the Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs: A groundbreaking report, Faith in the Balance: A Call to Action, which calls on The Episcopal Church
The primates’ meeting has come and gone, and I’m sure there will have been abundant commentary by the time this is published. I’d like to reflect on some of the deeper issues behind our conversations about sexuality, particularly the influence of our understanding of gender.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was the featured homilist on the Day One radio broadcast yesterday. Read her sermon, and see if you don’t hear echoes of Bill Carroll’s recent essay on the Daily Episcopalian blog.
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori has recommended the Rt. Rev. Edwin F. “Ted” Gulick Jr., bishop of Kentucky, to be the provisional bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. If elected by the special meeting of the convention of the diocese, Bp. Gulick will be installed during the meeting. Bishop Gulick will serve part time as he continues to serve as bishop of Diocese of Kentucky.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori offers the following statement on the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States: As Episcopalians, we pray
The year 2008, it seemed, was crammed more-than-usually with momentous events for the Episcopal Church. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori discusses the events of the year and issues for the future in an interview with Solange de Santis, Editor of Episcopal Life.
We are deeply saddened by the first-hand reports we are receiving from Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza about the casualties they are treating under the most horrific circumstances. Not only do they lack basic medical supplies, but with windows blown out they are even struggling to keep patients warm.
I join my voice to … those of many others around the world, challenging the Israeli government to call a halt to this wholly disproportionate escalation of violence. I challenge the Palestinian forces to end their rocket attacks on Israelis.
ELO: Jefferts Schori arrived at Bolling Air Force Base on December 20, and spent the following day there, preaching at the 8:15 a.m. service and
The Presiding Bishop, Katherine Jefferts Schori, is home in Nevada for Christmas visiting family. She sat down for an hour-long interview with KNPR. Listen here.