“Our ministry together in the next nine years comes at a critical time for the Episcopal Church. It is not too strong to say that we’re facing an existential crisis.”
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori: “Deacons are essential to this church. They work under the radar most of the time. Almost all of them work without pay.”
The bishops also approved a trial use that redefines Holy Matrimony as “Christian marriage, in which two people enter into a life-long union,” rather than “the woman and the man.”
