ENS: Interview with the Presiding Bishop on the Lambeth Conference

By Neva Rae Fox
July 08, 2008

[Episcopal News Service] As the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion prepare for the Lambeth Conference, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori shared her views and her hopes for the July 16-August 3 gathering in a recent question-and-answer session.

ENS: You addressed the topic of the Lambeth Conference in a webcast on May 20. At that time you called the Lambeth Conference an opportunity for bishops throughout the Anglican Communion to meet each other, that "we encounter each other as human beings working in vastly different contexts around the globe and that we build relationships." Do you maintain that view of the Lambeth Conference?

KJS: Yes.

ENS: What do you see as the heart of the Lambeth Conference?

KJS: Conversation, spending time together, and beginning to learn something about each others' contexts. the rest