British royal family
Why I empathize with Harry and Meghan
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 8, 2021
(RNS) — So the British royal family is screwed up. Aren't we all?
The hidden sweetness in Amy Schumer’s new boy’s name
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 8, 2019
Amy Schumer's new baby boy has an interesting middle name. There is a message there about synagogue life.
2018 in review: A year of reckoning for powerful religious figures
By Bob Smietana — December 28, 2018
(RNS) — A year ago Bill Hybels was the pastor of one of the nation's most influential megachurches, Theodore McCarrick was a prince of the Catholic Church, and Michael Curry was the relatively unknown head of a mainline Protestant denomination.
Prince Charles calls for Middle East peace at service for persecuted Christians
By Catherine Pepinster — December 3, 2018
LONDON (RNS) — The plight of persecuted Christians is a cause that has become dear to the heir to the British throne.
About the royal wedding sermon …
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 22, 2018
It is now the most famous sermon in recent history. But, what is love?
Episcopalians reflect on staying power of ‘the sermon that stole the show’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 21, 2018
(RNS) — Bishop Michael Curry’s address will be numbered among history’s great sermons 'because of who he is, what he said, where he said it and how he said it.'
Episcopal Bishop Curry gives royal wedding an American flair
By The Associated Press — May 19, 2018
(AP) — Nothing quite captured the trans-Atlantic nature of Saturday’s royal wedding as much as the guest preacher whose sermon brought American flair to a very English church service.
American bishop brings human rights focus to royal wedding
By The Associated Press — May 19, 2018
(AP) — The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry also plans to join a march on the White House next week that rejects U.S. President Trump’s 'America first' stance as 'theological heresy.'
Photos of the Week
By Kit Doyle — May 19, 2018
This week’s gallery includes images from the start of Ramadan, protests over the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, and more.
The Anglican politics of Prince Harry’s wedding
By Mark Silk — May 17, 2018
It has to do with same-sex marriage.
Episcopalians scramble to capitalize on royal wedding opportunity
By Mark A. Kellner — May 17, 2018
(RNS) — For the Episcopal Church, the occasion marks a moment of opportunity to welcome newcomers and show the world Episcopalians are not entirely marginalized for their progressive views on gay ordination and same-sex marriage.
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry to preach at royal wedding ceremony
By The Associated Press — May 12, 2018
LONDON (AP) — Curry is the first African-American to have served as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Prince Harry will marry a divorced American — and the church is fine with it
By Catherine Pepinster — November 27, 2017
(RNS) — The prince and the American actress don't face the obstacles the Church of England posed for King Edward VIII, who loved another divorced American.
Meghan Markle is not Jewish. Big deal.
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 27, 2017
Our new-old hobby: claiming Jews. The question is: why?
What the queen’s Nazi salute says about British high society in the 1930s (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — July 28, 2015
(RNS) While the short film doesn’t make Elizabeth, who was just a child, an anti-Semite, it does remind us that in pre-World War II Britain, hatred of Jews and admiration of Nazism were rampant.
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