Nation's top Episcopal bishop speaks in Shepherdstown

By RICHARD F. BELISLE
October 3, 2010

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.VA. — Trinity Episcopal Church in Shepherdstown had what Pastor G.T. Schramm called one of its proudest moments Sunday when the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States led a service there.

The church at the corner of Church and German streets was nearly filled to capacity when the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori celebrated the 10 a.m. service. the rest image image

Jefferts Schori said faith “is not the result of whiz-bang encounters with the holy. It’s much more like the production of coal, through the long, slow accumulation of dead organisms, slowly covered with rock, and then the millennia of pressure. Faith comes through the accumulation of life’s challenges.”