I worked with the Episcopal Diocese of South West Virginia in 2017 and 2018, giving some live-streamed and video-recorded talks about racism. So I was invited to the celebration of their 100th-anniversary celebration last Sunday, which featured the Presiding Bishop, Michael Curry, he of the royal wedding last year.
The Sunday service, at a nearly full 4,000 seat auditorium, rocked with the assistance of a band all the way from Florida. The whole stage party danced to the music, including Bishop Curry as well as Bishop Mark of the SW VA Conference.
Bishop Curry enjoyed it immensely. As he came forth to give his untypically energetic Episcopalian sermon, he joked that he “thought this was to be something related to the Episcopal church.”
And I said to myself, “What has the Church of God in Christ wrought?” Exuberant praise worship seems to have spread to most Christian Churches. It leaves me still trying to process it all–the singing and dancing Episcopalians.