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Clergy Conference
Each year, the clergy of the diocese gather for a few days of renewal, learning, and strengthening our shared ministry. This year’s conference will focus on conflict resolution through the lens of Jesus’ life and teaching: exploring faithful ways to engage disagreement, disruption, and transformation in our congregations and communities. From the prophetic act of turning over the tables to practices of reconciliation and repair, clergy will build practical skills for navigating conflict with courage, clarity, and pastoral care.
Our guest facilitator is the Rev. Laura Eberly. Laura is a vocational deacon, community organizer, and trainer around conflict resolution. She currently serves as clergy-in-charge at Santiago St. James Episcopal Church—a small, bilingual, working class community living out its gospel call in Oakland, CA. Whether she is leading Santiago’s heartfelt Coffee Conmigo conversations, College for Congregational Development trainings, or workshops with her DEI consulting practice, Laura’s work is to tend the nets. She is attentive to the ties that bind us and to how we can build infrastructure to support and nourish them. Laura lives with her wife and chosen family in Concord, CA, where she enjoys hiking, gardening, and trying to convince her two young children they enjoy those things too.
Our time together will also include dedicated time for conversation with Bishop White, including a Fireside Chat, checking in with one another on our shared ministry and the bishop’s expectations and hopes for clergy leadership in this season of our life together.
February 24-26, 2026
Arrive by 12:30 on Tuesday
Depart around 12:30 on Thursday
Open to all priests, deacons, and bishops canonically resident or actively serving DSO congregations. Registration deadline Feb. 5.
Questions about this event?
Contact Sarah Simko, executive assistant to the canon to the ordinary, at ssimko@diosohio.org.
