Episcopal News Service Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Presiding Bishop-elect tells ordained women to dream big dreams, live with hope
Leadership principles include courage, risk, curiosity and sense of interconnection
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[ENS, KANUGA] -- Presiding Bishop-elect Katharine Jefferts Schori October 2 told a historic gathering of ordained Episcopal women part of her story and connected it to the way she thinks about leadership.
The text for the gathering is the stories of their lives and the stories of those whom they represent, said Jefferts Schori, as the first speaker at the "Imagine: Claiming & Empowering Ordained Women's Leadership" conference, which runs until October 6 at the Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
It is the first Episcopal Church-wide gathering of ordained women in the 30 years since women were admitted to the orders of priest and bishop. Many of those attending had their costs paid for by their bishops. Ordained women from Europe, Uganda and Liverpool are part of the group.
In addition to receiving coaching about leadership, the participants are being asked to imagine the kind of church they want to lead.
Jefferts Schori told approximately 200 women that her parents encouraged her intellectual curiosity and never had a pre-determined idea of what a girl could and could not do. As a child, Jefferts Schori's curiosity took the form of building a crystal radio set and learning to work in a darkroom when she was six years old. It later meant taking both bugle and harp lessons, as well as learning to fly and to scuba dive.
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