Bishop Michael Curry-Hope in Troubling Times

Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

Bob Goff

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry is Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church. He is the Chief Pastor and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer, and as Chair of the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church. Presiding Bishop Curry maintains a national preaching and teaching ministry, having been featured on The Protestant Hour and as a frequent speaker at churches, cathedrals, and conferences around the country and internationally.

He has authored five books: Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Time (2020); The Power of Love (2018); Following the Way of Jesus: Church's Teachings in a Changing World (2017); Songs My Grandma Sang (2015); and Crazy Christians: A Call to Follow Jesus (2013). He was one of the subjects of In Conversation: Michael Curry and Barbara Harris by Fredrica Harris Thompsett (2017).

He has authored numerous publications including columns for the Huffington Post and the Baltimore Times.

In 2018, Religion News Association named Presiding Bishop Curry religion newsmaker of the year.

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On the episode:Producer : Tatave Abeshyan
Producer & Co-host : Scott Schimmel

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0:00.0	Access More.
0:04.0	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Dream Big Podcast with Bob Golf and friends.
0:13.0	I'm your coo, Scott Schimmel, I'm here, I'm here with Bob Golf.
0:16.0	Yeah, you are, and I'm here with myself as well.
0:19.0	I hope you guys are doing great.
0:22.0	It's been a it's been a great week hasn't it Scott?
0:25.8	Well today when we release this episode it's inauguration day and we hope it's a good day. We hope this turns into a good week. We of course don't know the future but we do know the past, the past couple weeks and it hasn't been going too well the past couple weeks in terms of our country. Bob I think I'd be fascinated here kind of some thoughts you have on the disunity that we're seeing on the divide that we're seeing like what is your what is your kind of
0:54.7	interpretation of that? Yeah I think that we each deal with ambiguity differently
0:59.6	some people get frightened by ambiguity because it presses all those buttons, all those triggers they
1:06.7	have.
1:07.7	Other people get very stoic about their ambiguity.
1:11.3	Some get cynical and I want to push back against the cynicism in the world
1:16.2	by replacing that with a ton of hope and that's why today's podcast was
1:21.4	particularly kind of scheduled to just say where's the hope at and I want to some hope build voices
1:29.5	To surround you and so
1:32.2	This is for you today. So we have Bishop Michael Curry and if
1:36.3	that name doesn't sound familiar I'm sure his voice does and I'm sure his face
1:40.8	does because he was world famous for more than a few minutes with the royal wedding was that last year two years ago.
1:47.6	He was the guy that did the wedding, the big wedding and much more than just a guy that presides over famous people's weddings.
1:55.0	He's a guy that has been writing and speaking and preaching about hope and love,
1:59.6	particularly in disunity for many, many years.
2:02.0	Bishop Michael Curry is the presiding
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