The national leader of 2.4 million Episcopalians -- including 20,600 in Oregon -- hung out Sunday at a Northeast Portland church, participating in what she defines as old-school conversation.
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, who's been at the center of an often-tense conversation about the ordination of gay clergy, told a full house on Sunday at Grace Memorial Episcopal Church that the word "conversation" slipped into English usage in the 1300s.
"From the Latin, conversatio, it meant 'to turn about with,'" she said, "'to live with, to spend time with.' We'd say, 'to hang out with.' It didn't mean to talk." And so the first woman elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States shared some impressions of the church in the 21st century and then hung out as audience members reflected on interfaith partnerships, support for the military and the role of religious schools.
A scientist educated at Oregon State University and a former assistant rector at a Corvallis church, Jefferts Schori visited Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland on Saturday morning and then spent time with teenagers at Camp Magruder, near Rockaway Beach. On Sunday, she also confirmed 15 people at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem and marked Grace Memorial's centennial. She was scheduled to meet on Monday with Eugene-area clergy.
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