From Chicago-
As a trained oceanographer, pilot and high-profile prelate, Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori seems like the ideal ambassador to bridge the widening chasm between faith and science.
She will step up to that challenge Friday in Chicago when she champions collaboration between the religion and health care communities at two area hospitals.
During a public lecture at Rush University Medical Center, Jefferts Schori is expected to discuss healing ministries that Episcopal congregations have developed around the world. Later that day, she is expected to ordain Stroger Hospital's first paid trauma chaplain.
Elected in 2006 for a nine-year term, Jefferts Schori immediately set out to make the United Nations Millennium Development Goals — eight global priorities to help the world's poorest — the hallmark of her tenure.
"Religion is one of those institutions that crosses national boundaries, said the Rev. James Risk, the executive director of Bishop Anderson House, the Episcopal Church's ministry serving the Illinois Medical District, who invited her to Chicago soon after she was elected. "If we're going to meet human needs, we need to be working together. … Science and faith will do more together to meet the challenges as a species than we will apart."
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