The Uganda Archbishop, Stephen Kaziimba, in his Christmas message said this, "There are rumours that the Church of England will soon vote to provide some form of blessings for homosexual relationships. We are grateful for the Church of England who gave us the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But we will never follow you in supporting homosexuality.

Curry was in the diocese of San Diego recently promoting his "loving, liberating and life-giving" message, at a Good News Festival. He was whooping it up in a familiar cadence style more commonly found in black churches.

Sewanee is the Episcopal Church's only university and is highly thought of by Episcopalians many of whose alumni includes Bishop Gene Robinson and historian Jon Meacham.

The University of the South, is a private Episcopal liberal arts college and is owned by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church, and its School of Theology is an official seminary of the church. As of 2021 it had an endowment of $519.1 million.

In mid-December 2019 the first case of the coronavirus was identified in Wuhan, China. During the first week of January the Center for Disease Control was made aware of the illness in China. By January 15 the first American COVID case was found in Washington state. Five days later the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and on March 11 a worldwide pandemic was declared.