In Conversation: Michael Curry and Barbara Harris

In this inaugural volume in the new In Conversations series, get to know two trailblazing Episcopalians as they talk informally about things that matter to them.

As a teenager, Michael Curry served as a part of the "Youth Presence" at General Convention 1979. While there, he met Barbara Harris, not yet a priest. The story of their friendship is one that tracks the history of the Episcopal Church over the intervening years.

In this volume, the two talk about a wide range of topics—their families and the strong women who shaped them, the vocation of the priesthood and the episcopacy, and social justice, among others—in a conversation facilitated and edited by Fredrica Harris Thompsett. This is an easy and engaging read for members of the Episcopal Church, church leaders, and those caught by the vision of the Philadelphia Eleven.