Christmas Is In (and On) The Air...

http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2011/12/20/general-seminarys-television-special-to-air-on-cbs-christmas-eve/

General Seminary in New York City will be aired on CBS Christmas Eve with KJS giving the homily.

A Rather Different Cameo Appearance!

The irreverant adult cartoon "American Dad" had an episode called "Seasons Beatings" in which the lead character played Santa in the church (an Episcopal church, by the way) Christmas  play and beat his archrival, the man who played Jesus. The news picks it up, church leaders from around the world call each other about it and ban him from all  Christianity. Amongst the leaders was our PB, along with the Pope and some Methodist leaders. You can't see here but she also has a name plate that says "Bishop Schori". Well, it should have said Jefferts Schori, but close enough! Love the shield placements!!

Advent Message 2011

Advent Reflection from The Episcopal Church on Vimeo.

September 11: Ten years later

Presiding Bishop reflects on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. from The Episcopal Church on Vimeo.

Congo Visit

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Rev. Margaret Rose and the Rev. Petero Sabune stop to say a prayer with widows in a community near the Anglican University of Congo in Bunia. Widows are considered outcasts in many Congolese communities and forced by some churches to face the wall during worship services.

More pics. The camera just loves her........

"We need bold and prophetic voices. We need networks that inspire and organize people," she said. "There is abundant work to be done and it must always be inspired by that vision of shalom: food and drink for feasting, dignified work and sabbath leisure, none lording it over another, all God's children living in peace. Pray that it may be so and work like hell to make it so."

Bishop Barbara C. Harris, right, retired bishop suffragan of Massachusetts, presented Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori with the Episcopal City Mission's Barbara C. Harris Award for Social Justice during ECM's June 7 annual meeting. Harris is the first woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion; Jefferts Schori is the first woman to serve as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.

The Lord is My Shepherd

Do this in rememberance of me....

Beautiful shot! More pics here: http://www.stjohnsky.com/plogger/index.php?level=album&id=2

May your Eastertide be filled with the grace of new life. Go, discover, and BE resurrection for the world around you.

Presiding bishop's 2011 Easter message


April 07, 2011



[Episcopal News Service] The Resurrection must be understood in significantly different images and metaphors in the southern hemisphere, when Easter always arrives in the transition from summer to winter. Even as a hard, hard winter lingers on in northern climes, with unaccustomed April snow in many places, we yearn for the new life we know is waiting around the corner. As Christians, we're meant to have the same hunger for the new creation emerging all around us.



We can see the broken places of our world either as complete and utter disaster, or as seedbeds -- graves, even -- in which God is doing a new thing. The situation in Haiti is dire, yet day by day and person by person hope lightens and leavens. Plans are emerging for civic reconstruction in Port-au-Prince that would bless the nation with pride in its heritage and more effective government. The Episcopal Church is a partner in those possibilities, as the vision for a rebuilt cathedral takes form. The graves are becoming gardens, at Cathédrale Sainte-Trinité and Collège St. Pierre. New and more life-giving relationships are emerging between development ministries and the lives of the people. Resurrection is happening in many places, even if one must search for it, like looking for the first buds on the trees as ice and snow give way to the warmth of spring.



The aftermath of earthquake and tsunami in Japan continues to look a great deal like winter, and the trials and failures at Daiichi Fukushima currently resonate more with apocalypse than Easter. Yet across northeastern Japan the work of the faithful is feeding senior citizens, ministering to displaced persons in shelters, and prompting challenging questions about social priorities, energy use, and consumerist lifestyles.



The gift of Easter insists that human beings are capable of divine relationship, for as Athanasius put it, "God became human that human beings might become divine." The life, death, passion, and resurrection of Jesus are the cosmic insistence that nothing can separate us from the divine passion for humanity. Easter people are imprinted with the assurance that God is always working some new grace of creation out of death and destruction.



For most of us the dying is not cosmic. It may start with a small willingness to set aside self, or a new opportunity for grafting onto a greater whole. Or it may involve lowering the barriers between self and other to become more readily aware of our fundamental oneness, our common heritage as offspring of the Holy One. If we are to be followers of Jesus, we share the work he did on our behalf. We give thanks for the Resurrection, and we become part of Jesus’ ongoing work, as we become aware of its power in our own lives.



May your Eastertide be filled with the grace of new life. Go, discover, and BE resurrection for the world around you.

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori

Presiding Bishop and Primate

The Episcopal Church

Lenten Message 2011

Flashback : 2006

The Today Show interviews a newly elected KJS in 2006

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Presiding bishop to join Obama administration as advisory council member

Presiding bishop to join Obama administration as advisory council member


By ENS staff, February 05, 2011



[Episcopal News Service] President Barack Obama announced Feb. 4 that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori would be joining his administration as a member of the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

"I am grateful for the opportunity to be of service to the larger community in this way," Jefferts Schori said, according to a press release from the Episcopal Church's Office of Public Affairs. "The ability to build partnerships between civic and religious bodies can only expand our capacity to heal a broken world."



The council "brings together religious and secular leaders as well as scholars and experts in fields related to the work of faith-based and neighborhood organizations in order to make recommendations to the government on how to improve partnerships," a White House press release noted, adding that the president will announce additional members at a later date. Each council serves a one-year term.



Obama said, "I am pleased to announce that these experienced and committed individuals have agreed to join this administration, and I look forward to working with them in the months and years ahead."



Also announced as one of the 11 new members to join the council is Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, which shares a full communion partnership with the Episcopal Church.



The other new members are:



Susan Stern, named as chair of the council; special adviser on government affairs to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC);

Leith Anderson, president of the National Association of Evangelicals;

Andrea Bazán, president of Triangle Community Foundation;

Angela Glover Blackwell, founder and chief executive officer of Policy Link;

Brian Gallagher, president and CEO of United Way Worldwide;

Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly;

Archbishop Demetrios Trakatellis, archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of America;

Sister Marlene Weisenbeck, member of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration; and

Reverend Elder Nancy L. Wilson, moderator for the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.

In February 2009, Obama established the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to "work on behalf of Americans committed to improving their communities, no matter their religious or political beliefs."



According to the White House website, the council is charged with: identifying best practices and successful modes of delivering social services; evaluating the need for improvements in the implementation and coordination of public policies relating to faith-based and neighborhood organizations; and making recommendations to the president and the administration on changes in policies, programs, and practices.

A couple of nice pics