Katharine Jefferts Schori
The Anglican Communion is already divorced (COMMENTARY)
By Trevin Wax — September 21, 2015
(RNS) For decades now, traditional Anglicans have watched leaders in the West abandon key components of historic Christianity.
Breakaway Episcopalians win Texas church property fight
By Kevin Eckstrom — March 4, 2015
(RNS) The ruling is an about-face for a Texas court that originally sided with the national church, until the state Supreme Court stepped in and ordered a rehearing.
The rise and fall of the American seminary (COMMENTARY)
By Tom Ehrich — October 7, 2014
NEW YORK (RNS) Why is the Episcopal Church's flagship seminary faltering? For the same reason that historic churches and denominations are trapped in "train wrecks." Their time has passed.
Episcopal Church’s Katharine Jefferts Schori will not seek re-election
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — September 23, 2014
(RNS) Katharine Jefferts Schori’s time as presiding bishop has been lauded by theological liberals and bemoaned by conservatives.
The ‘Philadelphia 11’ who shattered the stained-glass ceiling: 40 years later, where are they now?
By Heather Adams — July 23, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) Forty years ago this week, 11 women broke rank and were ordained as the first female priests in the Episcopal Church. Find out here what became of the “Philadelphia Eleven.”
Katharine Jefferts Schori to receive honorary degree from Oxford
By Trevor Grundy — February 10, 2014
(RNS) Justin Welby, head of the 85 million-member Anglican Communion, spoke of the American bishop’s deep commitment to the environment and her love for those who live and work at “the edge of society.”
Lutherans take surprise step in electing female presiding bishop
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — August 15, 2013
(RNS) The Rev. Elizabeth Eaton will take over from Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson, who will step down after 12 years of overseeing the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, one of the country’s largest denominations.
Lutherans elect Elizabeth Eaton first female presiding bishop of ELCA
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — August 14, 2013
(RNS) The new presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Elizabeth Eaton, told delegates that "We are a church that is overwhelmingly European in a culture that is increasingly pluralistic."
Christian leaders seek to overcome polarization
By Lauren Markoe — May 15, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) “Faith leaders have a remarkable opportunity to shift the conversation, but it’s very challenging, particularly in a larger society that wants to understand everything as a battle," said Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.
White House council calls for action on modern-day slavery
By Adelle M. Banks — April 10, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) A White House advisory council of faith leaders is urging the creation of a global fund to address trafficking and a new labeling system to help identify goods that were not created with slave labor.
Clerics say Millennium Development Goals must be reached
By Trevor Grundy — April 8, 2013
LONDON (RNS) With fewer than 1,000 days left to meet the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, religious leaders from the G-8 countries are pushing heads of government to renew their efforts to meet the anti-poverty benchmarks by 2015.
Episcopal bishops agree not to help breakaway congregations
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — March 21, 2013
(RNS) The Episcopal Church has a new commandment for its bishops: Thou shalt not assist former Episcopalians who are trying to take the church’s assets.
Justin Welby installed as 105th Archbishop of Canterbury
By Trevor Grundy — March 21, 2013
(RNS) Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby inherits a church wracked by internal divisions over the ordination of women bishops and continuing strains within the larger Anglican Communion over divisive issues of sexuality.
S.C. Episcopal diocese claims a victory in secession struggle
By Lauren Markoe — January 24, 2013
(RNS) Episcopal conservatives in South Carolina have won the latest round in their effort to secede from the national church after a judge said only the breakaway group can use the name and seal of the Diocese of South Carolina.
Episcopalians battle over aid to Israel
By Solange De Santis — January 20, 2013
(RNS) A group of prominent Episcopalians is criticizing their church's stand on Israel, urging it to join 15 other denominations who call for an accounting of U.S. aid to Israel. By Solange De Santis.
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