Jefferts Schori Coaches Ordained Episcopal Women
By Lillian Kwon
Christian Post Reporter
Wed, Oct. 04 2006

Katharine Jefferts Schori, who is only one month away from officially leading the U.S. Episcopal Church, told a group of ordained women to "dream the big dream" at the first Episcopal Church-wide gathering of women priests and bishops.

At the historic meeting on Oct. 2, the presiding bishop-elect coached some 200 women in Hendersonville, N.C., with mention of the divided Anglican Communion, saying they can't assume everything will be the same "from this day to the ages of ages," according to the Episcopal News Service.

"We can't simply translate our experience here into a system over here and assume it works," she said. "I think that's part of the trouble with the Anglican Communion right now."

Jefferts Schori, who expressed her condoning of homosexuality and same-sex marriage, encouraged women leaders to think "outside the box" and to be curious and willing to question things – qualities that have to do with "being dissatisfied with the conventional wisdom."

"We've always done it this way. Why? Why? Does that make it good?" she continued. "Is there some other possibility we can be wrestling with or discovering?"

The soon-to-be-installed presiding bishop raised controversy in the church when she was elected this year. Although her election as the first woman to hold the top post in the Episcopal Church – the U.S. representative of Anglicanism – marked a significant step for women in the church, her pro-homosexual position has left dioceses seeking another overseer. the rest