The Telegraph’s recent interview with Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori is a classic example of an ideologically-motivated newspaper writing conflict-mongering headlines that the text of the story cannot support.
Updated with Reuters report. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori responds to the GAFCON statement: Much of the Anglican world must be lamenting the latest emission
This weekend, about 3,000 Native American Episcopalians and others are expected at the Niobrara Convocation as Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori leads the closing Eucharist. In an interview with the local paper, Jefferts Schori also makes a pithy observation about the matters dominating the headlines with regard to the Anglican Communion.
In the coming days, we urge all Americans to pray for peace in the Sudan and to call for strong action from the international community to restore stability in a land whose people have been entangled far too long in violence.
epiScope is carrying a statement from the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori on the ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe. The Presiding Bishop calls for action by
A gay audience member asked when he and his partner of 10 years will be able to have their relationship blessed by the church. “I don’t think it’s going to happen this year,” Jefferts Schori said, adding that the national church’s General Convention undoubtedly will revisit the issue when it meets again in 2009. “I think it certainly will happen in our lifetimes.”
Jesus is Lord. In the same sense that early Christians proclaimed that Jesus, not Caesar, is Lord, remember that no one else – not any hierarch, not any ecclesiastical official, not any one of you – is Lord. We belong to God, whom we know in Jesus, and there is no other place where we find the ground of our identity.
These are indeed difficult decisions that we at times are called to make, and I have no
doubt that all of us would wish things were different. We must respond to the situations
with which we are faced, compassionately but not naively, knowing that we make these
decisions not for ourselves alone but for the people whom we are called to shepherd and
oversee.
Visiting a special convocation of the Diocese of Fort Worth with the expressed purpose of describing removal to the Province of the Southern Cone is an unprecedented and unwarranted invasion of, and meddling in, the internal affairs of this Province. I ask you to consider how you might receive such a visit to your own Province from a fellow primate.
“Coming here to bless a garden, especially at this time in the history of humanity, when we’re focused on how the church can be a more proactive voice in caring for the rest of creation, is an important message,”