Katharine Jefferts Schori's Martyrdom Sermon

Episcopal Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori, the controversial top bishop who’s presided over her denomination’s schism and accelerated decline, almost gave a good sermon. Speaking in Kansas last Friday, she movingly extolled Christian martyrdom, citing early church father Ignatius and persecuted Christians in the Mideast of today.

Of Ignatius, Jefferts Schori recalled his affirmation of the Trinity and that Jesus “was fully human, rather than only appearing to be, and that he really died and rose from the dead.” Facing a brutal execution under Emperor Trajan, he sacrificially embraced his martyrdom: “I am God’s wheat, to be ground fine by the teeth of lions to become purest bread for Christ.”

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