Schori Interview: Episcopal bishop wades into issues

By JANET I. TU
The Seattle Times
April 23. 2008

SEATTLE — She was an oceanographer who once worked in Seattle before she became a priest, then a bishop and, eventually, head of her national denomination.

Now, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has a chance to merge the two parts of her life.

Jefferts Schori, 54, who heads the Episcopal Church in the United States, came to Seattle for a conference recently, urging her denomination — and those of other faith traditions — to take action on climate change.

One goal is for national religious assemblies to commit to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 50 percent in 10 years at every church, synagogue or facility they maintain. the rest