It was hard to tell, looking out over the church crowd, what the general reaction was to Bishop Curry’s address. It was as if Bishop Curry had opened the windows and let a breath of air into a room that had felt a little stifling. People in Britain do not usually speak of love in the way he did in church. “The preacher is doing 50 in a 30 zone and it’s brilliant,” the BBC presenter Jeremy Vine wrote on Twitter. Michael Curry is talking about slaves finding love in the South in the face of the Queen of England.

Source: New York Times May 19, 2018 16:09 UTC