With the near-sedate delivery of the scientist and scholar that she is, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori addressed The Episcopal Church in an hour-long webcast Feb. 28 from Trinity Church Wall Street in New York.
The Presiding Bishop blended a summary of information about the five-day meeting of the primates of the Anglican Communion, which had concluded 10 days earlier, with her personal insight into the primates’ communiqué and its call for certain actions by The Episcopal Church before a specified point in time.
Bishop Jefferts Schori explained that the Anglican Communion and The Episcopal Church were experiencing great pain because the nerves have been stretched. But, she went on, just as a doctor should refrain from cutting off the limbs that feel pain — because that seldom solves the problem — the church must refrain from trying to end its distress by cutting itself into pieces. Read more
Friday, 2 March 2007
Schori prescribes calm for TEC
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