Q: What do you see as your primary tasks ahead?<\/p>\n
A: I think first to inspire and encourage the church and all of us as part of the church to embrace our vocation as part of the Jesus movement in the world. If 2 million Episcopalians are going out and functioning in this world as people who are actually following the teachings of Jesus and living in his spirit, in his way, they\u2019re going to change some things.<\/p>\n
Our General Convention when it gathered this summer really did lift up two critical priorities. One was for us as the Episcopal Church to really embrace evangelism and the sharing of the good news of God\u2019s incredible, reconciling love that we know in Jesus, and that\u2019s a positive evangelism, that\u2019s a gracious evangelism, that\u2019s a generous evangelism, that\u2019s evangelism with a smiling face that\u2019s a real smile.<\/p>\n
Q: What was the second priority at the General Convention?<\/p>\n
A: The second was to embrace serious work of racial reconciliation, which is the beginning of the work of reconciliation between human beings across all the divides.<\/p>\n