How to Lead with Love (even when it’s hard) | Bishop Michael Curry
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
How do you step into conversations, whether personal or professional, family, friends, colleagues, or even perceived or real adversaries, and still find a place for love in the conversation? Is that even possible in some situations? Is it asking way too much, or is it the only way to finally feel the way you want to feel and resolve an issue that, approached any other way, will remain forever intractable?
That’s what we’re talking about with today’s guest, the Most Reverend Michael Curry, who is the first African American individual to serve as Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church.
In May of 2018, Bishop Curry delivered a moving sermon on the redemptive power of love at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding, then just months after served as the officiant for the state funerals of Senator John McCain and President George H.W. Bush in the Washington National Cathedral.
Bishop Curry has also written 5 books, his newest is Love is the Way: Holding Onto Hope in Troubling Times, which expands upon his focus on love as the centerpiece for a new way to live and find meaning and peace, even at times when they can seem so hard to access. We explore all of this in today’s BEST OF conversation.
You can find Bishop Michael Curry at: Website | Instagram
If you LOVED this episode you’ll also love the conversations we had with Rev. Jacqui Lewis about love in challenging times.
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| 0:00.0 | I have to admit, while I was nervous ahead of time |
| 0:02.9 | at the world waiting, once I was preaching, I wasn't, |
| 0:05.6 | because I was doing what I do. |
| 0:07.4 | You know, you think about it. |
| 0:08.8 | People who act, we give them awards, |
| 0:11.4 | we give them Oscars and Emmys and Tonys |
| 0:14.5 | and they make a lot of money, |
| 0:16.0 | because acting is hard work. |
| 0:19.1 | Being who you actually are, it's not hard work. |
| 0:23.9 | It's actually letting go of a load of having to pretend |
| 0:27.9 | and having to prove yourself. |
| 0:30.1 | It's presenting your best self. |
| 0:32.3 | And I just think there's incredible liberation in that. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm still trying to grow into it more and more, |
| 0:37.8 | because at some point you have to say, you know what? |
| 0:40.0 | Like me, just like me, love me, that love me, |
| 0:43.6 | gotta be me, and me is okay. |
| 0:45.6 | So how do you step into conversations |
| 0:51.3 | whether personal or professional family, |
| 0:53.2 | friends, colleagues even perceived or real adversaries |
| 0:56.2 | and still find a place for love in that conversation, |
| 1:00.0 | even when you wildly disagree, |
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