Day: 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. 

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.