June 17, 2013
El Buen Pastor, Durham, NC
Diocese of North Carolina
16 June 2013The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop and Primate
The Episcopal ChurchHas anyone here ever worked as a shepherd, or known someone who did? My husband and I kept goats for a long time, but never sheep. We did get to know a shepherd one summer in Nevada. We never actually saw him, but we did see the messages he carved on trees as he followed the...
June 11, 2013
- B’nai B’rith International has issued the following statement:
B’nai B’rith International spoke before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva during the anti-Israel “agenda item 7” session. B’nai B’rith addressed UNHRC special rapporteur Richard Falk’s appalling recent comments blaming the Boston Marathon bombings on the United States’ foreign policy...
June 8, 2013
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs press release] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori presented the following remarks at the opening of the Executive Council Meeting at the Conference Center at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum Heights, MD (Diocese of Maryland).
Executive Council
Opening Remarks
June 8, 2013The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop and Primate...
June 6, 2013
Older people, who sometimes experience diminished cognitive or mental functioning or become more isolated as they age, are increasingly becoming the victims of abuse. They are vulnerable to abuse from a variety of sources, including both strangers and family members.
In the summer...
June 5, 2013
- B’nai B’rith International has issued the following statement:
B’nai B’rith International welcomes the appointment of Susan Rice as the new national security advisor.
Rice was previously the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and served as a positive force within the world body. She often defended Israel against malicious one-sided resolutions intended to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state. Rice spoke at...
June 4, 2013
[Church of Ireland -- Press Release] Ahead of the G8 Summit meeting on 17-18 June at the Lough Erne resort, the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of Ireland extend their welcome to the world leaders and their officials who will be visiting County Fermanagh. They commend the work of civic government as a calling which can lead to blessing, stating that ‘the equitable management of economic affairs has the potential to bring many benefits to a de-moralised world’. The bishops...
June 3, 2013
Episcopal Preaching Excellence – 25th anniversary
Feast of the Visitation of the BVM
Roslyn Conference Center, VA
May 30, 2013The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop and Primate
The Episcopal ChurchCreator, we give you thanks for all you are and all you bring to us for our visit within your creation. In Jesus, you place the Gospel in the center of this sacred...
[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori gave the following address during the 25th anniversary Preaching Excellence Conference May 30 at the Roslyn Conference and Retreat Center near Richmond, Virginia.
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop and Primate
The Episcopal ChurchI want to invite us to consider what kinds of proclamation are likely to be...
- B’nai B’rith International has issued the following statement:
B’nai B’rith International mourns the passing of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.). Lautenberg was a World War II veteran and a dear friend of the Jewish community. As a senator from New Jersey for more than 28 years, he was a staunch supporter of Israel, a champion of free emigration for Soviet and Iranian Jews, and a booster of the rights...
May 30, 2013
“Religious Freedom Under Attack” headed a recent L.A. Times editorial. Narrowing down to only short-circuiting nations, the column exposed merely the harshest facts in a new government report which also had a little light to shine for world interfaith development.
Of course, it would be neglectful of the media to ignore the current religious climate. One ongoing crisis in this camp is the Bahai’s worldwide protest efforts amping up against Iranian courts...