Katharine Jefferts Schori
How to rejoice after Newtown shootings?
[Episcopal News Service] Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared in the Huffington Post’s religion section. I want to challenge you to find something to rejoice about today. Even in the face of the pain around us, we are here to discover joy — today and every day. What can you find to rejoice over? Your […]
Day1 Faith & Science Series: Beyond Our Knowing
The Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, former Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, shares insights on the issue of creation and evolution and focuses on what matters eternally. This video is part of the Day1 Faith & Science in the 21st Century Series, made possible through the support of a grant by the John Templeton […]
Washington National Cathedral
Maybe we’ve all been in Job’s shoes at some point – or the shoes of his friends. We see so many people suffering for no apparently reason – shot on college campuses and in elementary schools, millions forced out of their homes and nations across the Middle East, as well as mothers and children fleeing […]
Feast of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nuestro hermano Martín tuvo un sueño, un sueño nacido en medio de la historia de un pueblo liberado de la esclavitud y opresión. Martin luchó duramente por hacer realidad este sueño: librar un pueblo todavía prisionero y cargados de cadenas. Cerca de 40 años después de su muerte, ustedes y yo sabemos que todavía no […]
Presiding Bishop renews Episcopal Church commitment and urges reform on 30th Anniversary of Refugee Act
In 1980, the United States Congress passed the Refugee Act, a comprehensive bill answering a national desire to receive persons fleeing persecution in many regions of the world. The Episcopal Church has extended a compassionate welcome to forcibly uprooted persons arriving on our shores since World War II. We have been eager partners in the […]
The Presiding Bishop Calls for Immediate Ceasefire
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori reiterated her December 29 call for an immediate ceasefire saying: 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 […]
Presiding Bishop's testimony to Senate on global warming
God has not given us a spirit of fear, but power, and of love, and of a sound mind. – 2 Timothy 1:7 Good Morning. Madam Chair, Senator Inhofe, my fellow panelists, it is my great honor and privilege to join you here this morning. I appreciate your kind introduction. I am the Most Reverend […]
Sermón de la Obispa Presidenta Katharine Jefferts Schori durante su visita a la Iglesia de San Miguel y Todos los Ángeles, Pórtland, Oregón
Fui al hospital del Buen Samaritano a visitar al Rev. John Scannell. Y viajé por primera vez en el MAX y el Tranvía de Pórtland. Yo nunca viví en esta ciudad y cuando viajé a la ciudad, siempre usé un automóvil. Reconozco que es un sistema notablemente eficiente y bien limpio – no un sistema […]
Province IV Synod
We’re celebrating the martyrs of Uganda tonight, but I’d like to start by inviting you to remember some of the martyrs of Province IV. These are a few who have given their lives as a witness, some actually in death, others in the purpose to which they gave their lives: Martin Luther King, assassinated […]
Presiding Bishop's statement on refugees
The children of Abraham have ever been reminded to care for the widow and orphan and the sojourner in their midst, who were the refugees and homeless of the time. Jesus charged his followers to care for the least of these and proclaim the near presence of the Reign of God – in other words, […]