"Our communities are still pretty well divided up between the haves and the have not’s, the white and those of darker hue, the straight and those who aren’t. Yet we’re all meant to cross over those boundaries that keep some enslaved to others’ definitions," she said. "We are all invited to bathe in the river of freedom, to be washed clean of the shame of thinking that some are different enough to be pushed out of the community, away from the feast God has set from the beginning of creation.
"Healing and reconciling need our active labor and participation," she added. "Disciples are supposed to build bridges wherever possible." Read the entire sermon here
4 July 2010
Christ Church, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Australia
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Presiding Bishop and Primate
The Episcopal Church
