Day: May 13, 2019

Press Release: Presiding Bishop Michael Curry wins top broadcasting award for Royal Wedding sermon

| Posted on May 13, 2019 |

American Bishop Michael Curry, presiding bishop and primate of The Episcopal Church, is to receive the 2019 Sandford St Martin Trustees’ Award in recognition of the huge media impact generated by his royal wedding sermon which helped to bring a better understanding of religious belief and its modern relevance to a new audience.

Churches continue to defy demands for accountability

| Posted on May 13, 2019 |

In the continuing revelations of sexual abuse, the church’s privileging protection of it’s reputation before either caring for victims or seeing that perpetrators face justice is drawing challenges to long-held ideas about the sanctity of the confessional.

Who Will Remember Me?

| Posted on May 13, 2019 |

“The Easter season is all about salvation. It is all about our yearning to know the Risen Christ. Like Mary in the garden, we want to hear Eternity call us by name.”

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