Katharine Jefferts Schori
Team Ministry Ordination in Westernport, Maryland
[Vamos a platicar sobre la geografía espiritual. La geografía exterior o física, influye a nuestro entendimiento de la relaciones entre Dios y nosotros.] I had a very interesting conversation a couple of nights ago about spiritual geography. Your new bishop made the observation that the new seal of the diocese reflects the fact that this […]
Presiding Bishop's Sermon at St. John’s Cathedral in Albuquerque, New Mexico
It is a great joy to be with you. I was in Taiwan last week for a meeting of the Asiamerican Ministry. I spent Tuesday night in Taipei, visiting Bishop David Lai. In one of our conversations I asked him how things were going in the diocese. He pointed to a picture in his office, […]
Marks of mission
Who(se) are you? Why are you here? What are you doing about it? That's a shorthand way of thinking about our identity and vocation as Christians. It's also a way of leading us as individuals and Christian communities into thinking about our mission — or better, our partnership in God's mission. Mission literally means "sending," […]
Presiding Bishop's Sermon at the Episcopal Asiamerica Ministries Commissioning Eucharist
Weâre celebrating the feast of Columba today. Now I donât imagine that heâs exactly a household name in Asian communities. He was a Celt, an Irish monk, who lived in the 6th century. Heâs remembered as a saint because he sailed across the sea to Scotland and started a monastery there. His fellow Irish monks […]
Presiding Bishop's Sermon at St. John's Cathedral, Hong Kong
When Jesus calls Matthew the tax collector to come and follow, his new disciple gets an earful of advice and a string of remarkable examples. Jesus initiates and responds to a series of startling encounters, beginning with the tax collector himself, when he calls a collaborator with the Roman occupiers to his side. He dines […]
Presiding Bishop’s Sermon at St. Peter’s Memorial, Geneva, NY
Last Sunday Dick and I went to a church we hadn’t been to before. At the coffee hour afterward we spoke with a woman and her son, and heard some of their story. She has been a member of this congregation for some time, but the boy is a newer member. When I asked the […]
Consecration of Prince Grenville Singh, Eastman Theater, Rochester, NY
On Memorial Day Dick and I went across the East River and ate lunch under the Brooklyn Bridge. There was great celebration all weekend for the 125th anniversary of that pioneering bridge. When it was built in 1883, it was the largest suspension bridge in the world, and its towers were the tallest structures in […]
Presiding Bishop urges Farm Bill defeat
As we are learning more each day about the widening food crisis around the world and the deepening economic problems threatening the poor and those living on the margins at home, it is fundamentally wrong for Congressional leaders to seek passage of a farm bill that harms American family farmers and significantly exacerbates poverty and […]
Presiding Bishop issues statement on Zimbabwe crisis
Together with millions of people around the world, my heart has been drawn in recent months to the political and humanitarian crisis unfolding in Zimbabwe. The tragedy of that nation’s descent into internal chaos is magnified by the high sense of purpose and prosperity that a newly independent Zimbabwe brought to Africa and the world […]
No longer strangers
Note to readers: During recent visits in dioceses around the Church, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has offered reflections on spending Holy Week in the Holy Land. This focus is central in the sermon that the Presiding Bishop preached on April 4 at St. James by-the-Sea, La Jolla, California, while she visited the Diocese of […]