Curry on 'the Jesus way', racism in America
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article39670
- Author
- Forget, André
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2016 October
- Author
- Forget, André
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2016 October
- Volume
- 142
- Issue
- 8
- Page
- 2
- Notes
- An interview with Bishop Michael Curry, the first African-American to hold the position of Presiding Bishop, conducted during July 2016 when Bishop Curry attended General Synod as a guest. Asked if he sees a role for the church in building bridges between people at this time in America, he responded: "The church -- followers of Jesus -- are in the bridge-building business. God built a bridge between divinity and humanity in Jesus. Reconciliation isn't just singing 'Kumbaya' and everyone being nice. [It is about' working through our differences honestly and with integrity, and sometimes repenting of where our differences or my differences or yours [have] actually hurt relationships and not helped the human family". Asked about the ongoing race violence in America he said: "There's a deep sadness for such pain and horror to be inflicted on the children of God. Everybody is somebody's child .. When violence takes life, no matter who they are, there is somebody at home weeping". Asked "How should the Canadian church work through the aftermath of the marriage canon vote ?" he replied: "Whatever you do, do it in the name of love .. In his last discourse at the Last Supper [John 13-17], Jesus talked about love, over and over again. 'By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, that you love one another'. He didn't say that you agree with one another .. [that] you like one another, but that you love one another".
- Subjects
- Curry, Michael B. (Michael Bruce), 1953-
- Reconciliation - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church
- Violence - United States
- Violence - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church
- Love - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church