Diana Evans’ article (Curry’s sermon will go down in history, 21 May) is certainly a true reflection on the excellent sermon Bishop Michael Curry gave at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex; the delivery was outstanding and it was one of the high points of the service. However, though it may be true that the sermon’s delivery is “not something ever witnessed in the lofty walls of the pinnacle of the Anglican establishment at a royal wedding”, its radical content is the same as the Queen and other regular churchgoers hear most Sundays. Christianity at its best is not always comfortable and certainly not boring, as we are told Christian love is a challenge to us all on how we live our daily lives and treat others as we would have them treat us.
Charles Elliott
Wakefield
• Perhaps the bemused and even frowning looks on the faces of the royal family as they listened to Michael Curry’s sermon was because they have never really listened to a passionate Christian before? Rather they attend church and listen to preachers toadying up to them, thus justifying their enormous wealth and privilege. I thought the sermon was courageous and wonderful.
Jean Lorriman
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
• Wedding guests would not have been so embarrassed and dumbfounded if they knew their TS Eliot: “The only hope. Or else despair / Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre – / To be redeemed from fire by fire. / Who then devised the torment? Love” (Little Gidding – part 4).
Keith Richards
London
• I’d be more convinced of the much reported new order if the Duchess of Sussex had been driving the electric E-Type rather than the Duke (We did it: Duke and Duchess of Sussex praised for ceremony, 21 May).
Sam White
Lewes, East Sussex
• Harry confirmed the maxim that a man who opens a car door for his wife either has a new car or a new wife.
Dr Dora Henry
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
• I am happy the duchess has said she is a feminist (Royal website highlights duchess’s feminism, 21 May), but I prefer the term “equalist” because that is what we are and should be.
Mary Cocker
Great Staughton, Cambridgeshire
• Duke of Sussex may be a silly title (Letters, 21 May) but it does at least recognise the pre-eminence of Brighton in providing entertainment for a prince in the 18th century.
Geoff Reid
Bradford
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