“Healing the worst of the poverty in this nation is intrinsically connected to restoring human beings to right relationship with the rest of creation.”
With those words, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori presented the first keynote address and prepared the groundwork for the three-day conference Called to Serve: The Episcopal Church Responds to Domestic Poverty at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, NJ.
The following is the text of the Presiding Bishop’s keynote address.