Katharine Jefferts Schori
For the whole world
I have had the remarkable privilege to visit several Episcopal schools and institutions of theological education in the last year. Several of them are involved in growing their own food, at vastly differing scales. The Ecumenical Seminary at Matanzas, Cuba, has acres of fields of organic vegetables, raised alike for the students and faculty of […]
Healing Our Planet Earth: Stewardship of the Earth
Why have we called on the various parts of creation around here to teach us and show us the way? God’s image is visible and detectible in all parts of creation; God is author of all. I was deeply struck by an image in that retelling of Genesis: “Gravity’s tentative fingers…” and later, “with time, […]
Presiding Bishop's Sermon at St. James by-the-Sea, San Diego, CA
I was in the Holy Land during this last Holy Week. When we were there by chance we met Cindy and Craig Corrie, whose daughter Rachel was killed by a bulldozer in Gaza five years ago. She was protesting the Israeli government’s destruction of a Palestinian home. We heard over and over from Palestinian Christians […]
Presiding Bishop's Sermon at St. Paul's Cathedral, San Diego, CA
When I was here in California last weekend, I saw an article in a local paper about tomato farmers deciding not to plant their fields with that labor-intensive crop this year. Those farmers are desperately aware of how difficult it is to find enough workers to harvest their crops, and they’re not going to gamble […]
Feast of the Annunciation at St. Mary the Virgin, New York City
I was in the Holy Land ten days ago, and on Holy Saturday we visited several sites in the Galilee. When we were in Nazareth, we were taken to several places that are associated with the feast we keep this day. One is the large and imposing Basilica of the Annunciation, built over the traditional […]
Targeting U.S. poverty
Episcopalians have learned a great deal about the Millennium Development Goals in the last couple of years. These goals that work toward an earthly vision of the Reign of God have captured our imagination and mission efforts as a church. The goals move toward the great vision of Isaiah that Jesus claims as his own […]
The Presiding Bishop's Sermon at Christ the King, Riverbank, CA
When I went to the airport in New York on Friday morning, I noticed a large group of Asians, all similarly dressed, and all with the same kind of luggage that looked like large soft-sided plastic boxes. I thought maybe it was a tour group from Mongolia or Myanmar. When I got on the airplane, […]
Presiding Bishop’s address to San Joaquin diocesan convention
I bring you Easter greetings, good news of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. As he says repeatedly to his disciples, “peace be with you,” and “fear not.” These may have been trying and traumatic months, but you are already clearly experiencing resurrection. There is new hope here for a church that can tolerate […]
Presiding Bishop's Palm Sunday sermon in Jerusalem
[Episcopal News Service] Marking the annual Palm Sunday celebrations and the start of a week-long visit to the Holy Land, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori preached March 16 at St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem at the invitation of Bishop Suheil Dawani of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. An audio stream of the Presiding Bishop’s sermon […]
Presiding Bishop’s Message for Easter 2008
Your Easter celebration undoubtedly has included lots of physical signs of new life — eggs, flowers, new green growth. As the Easter season continues, consider how your daily living can be an act of greater life for other creatures. How can you enact the new life we know in Jesus the Christ? In other words, […]