It was written by the Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States,
Michael Curry. I often tune in to Bishop
Curry’s sermons from Washington Cathedral; he overflows with passion, integrity
and humour!
His Chicago family were originally Baptists; often the home for Black American
Christians. Yet his mother started going
to her local Episcopal church and invited her boyfriend along, eventually they
would marry and become parents to the boy who would grow up to become the most
senior bishop in the USA.
Bishop Curry says his father was, at first, a reluctant Episcopalian. At that first service, which included Holy
Communion, his father was amazed to see both black and white people go up to
the altar to drink from a common cup.
These were the 1940’s and Martin Luther King was still in seminary with
Jim Crow being alive and well. These
were days of segregation and active prejudice – but not in this church. Curry’s father couldn’t believe his eyes, the
common cup passed from black to white as a matter of course, no fuss.
Bishop Curry wrote in last week’s Church Times: When my father told that
story he said: Any church in which Blacks and Whites drink out of the same cup
knows something about the gospel that I want to be a part of…
Wednesday 13 January 2021
Wednesday 17th January 2021: Progress is Possible
I think we all need reminding of the positive changes
that have taken place in our society within our life- times. I read one such story in the pages of The Church
Times last week.
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