Bishop Michael Curry and a Rather Large Jesus Movement
Going by the attendance, you would never think Western Christianity was in any kind of trouble. I join a long queue snaking round the north face of St Paul's Cathedral and another twenty or so join behind me within minutes. Eventbrite has warned me that over 1,800 will be turning out to see the American clergyman who stole the show at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Miss Meghan Markle, and boy, have they turned up. The crowd is everything the Church of England would want to see at any of their churches: racially diverse, a mean age closer to 30 than 70, spiritually engaged (there is a monk behind me with long strawberry-blonde hair and a striking blue cassock) and - if I haven't made it clear already - big . Proportionately there must be a significant portion of this audience - congregation? - who are not regular churchgoers. But who can blame them? Archbishop Michael Curry's homily appeared like a bolt from the blue during last year's big ceremony, seizing his...