Bishop Michael Curry vividly remembers growing up in segregated Buffalo in the 1950s and ’60s, where on one bright morning in 1963, he crossed Main Street from East Buffalo to West Buffalo to attend an integrated school.
As an Episcopal priest and civil rights activist, his late father, Kenneth Curry, helped lead the boycott of the city’s segregated public schools. And yet, like the larger culture at the time, worship in the Episcopal Church he so loved was largely segregated. As leader of a black congregation in Buffalo, he never would have been called to the pulpit of a white Episcopal church.
Five decades later, Kenneth Curry probably would never have imagined that his son would be chosen to lead the entire denomination.
A very flattering article. It is interesting who the Post reporter interviewed. The real question is will he really stop the law suits? I doubt he will. And now that bishops like Bruno are suing the very ones they originally sued to “protect” I think it is probably beyond his control even if he wanted to stop. I hope I’m wrong.
I can’t envision a realistic scenario in which the lawsuits cease. At the most, Curry could potentially stop making the national church a party to any new lawsuits, but he’s not going to withdraw from existing suits, nor will he intervene to stop dioceses from litigating. As Curry made clear following his election, he supports the existing policies of KJS.