Following the wedding, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby had gushed about the sermon, saying it “blew the place open” and that everyone who had witnessed it had been “gripped by it”.
He said at the time: “It was fantastic. And you could see people just caught up in it, and excited by it.”
The Church of England’s secretary general, William Nye said the changes to church law would make it easier for parishes to “work with what is effectively the fastest growing expressions” of christianity in England.
At a press conference announcing the move, he said: “Now a lot of the life of Christianity in England is in the independent churches, evangelical churches, Pentecostal churches, black-led, black-majority churches.
“And many parishes are working with those, and finding ways to share in the lives of those churches, and come together for a better expression of Christianity, in partnership, but we haven’t previously had a framework for it.”
Working with them would enable the Church of England to celebrate and learn from them, he added.