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The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
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The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori: Being Salt in the World

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori (TEC)

Sermon for Kansas Diocesan Convention
Grace Cathedral, Topeka, Kansas

by The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
10/24/2009

I think most Americans would say that the average Midwesterner is "salt of the earth." It conveys the understanding that good common sense is present everywhere around here, that you aren't going to be lured away by the excesses of some dubious enterprise or flagrantly seductive advertising. Yet Kansas is hardly average. It's more like the community Garrison Keillor celebrates, even turning the cultural stereotypes upside down - good-looking men, strong women, and all the children above average- you are all of those and more!

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