Katharine Jefferts Schori

The Center for Western Civilization, Thought & Policy, in collaboration with St. Aidan's and Canterbury Campus Ministry, is pleased to welcome Katharine Jefferts Schori, Ph.D., the first woman to be elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. Katharine Jefferts Schori was recently featured as one of .

The Right Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori will be giving a public lecture on Monday, October 9th, entitled "Science, Religion, and Land: The West and the Rest" in Eaton Humanities 150 at 5:15 PM. She will also be speaking at a seated lunchtime event entitled "Cosmic Faith in the Anthropocene Age" on October 11th, 2017, for which a couple slots still remain (reservations are required).

The day I was elected presiding bishop, after all the hullabaloo in the house of deputies when the consents were given, a man said to me, “Now, don’t you wear dangly earrings.” It just confronted his image of what was proper and appropriate. - Katharine Jefferts Schori in Times Magazine