Some within the church questioned the orthodoxy of her theology. For example, her statement that "the great Western heresy – is that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God" in her opening address to the 2009 General Convention was widely criticized and prompted a clarifying statement from her in the following week. In 2013, Schori gave a sermon in Curaçao about Paul driving out a demon from a slave girl (), and was criticized for characterizing the event as an act of patriarchical oppression and failing to accept diversity.