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DIALOGUE: The Lenten Preaching Series Podcast with Pádraig Ó’Tuama

Pádraig Ó Tuama’s interests lie in language, violence and religion. Having grown up in a place that has a long history of all three (Ireland, yes, but also Europe) he finds that language might be the most redeeming of all three of these. In language there is the possibility of vulnerability, of surprise, of the creative movement towards something

Barbara Brown Taylor read by Scott Walters

We are disappointed to announce that an unexpected health issue kept Barbara Brown Taylor from traveling to Memphis for Calvary’s Lenten Preaching Series. Barbara wrote a sermon to be delivered in her absence titled “Blessed are the Spiritually Bankrupt.”

The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author,

Pádraig Ó’Tuama

Pádraig Ó Tuama’s interests lie in language, violence and religion. Having grown up in a place that has a long history of all three (Ireland, yes, but also Europe) he finds that language might be the most redeeming of all three of these. In language there is the possibility of vulnerability, of surprise, of the creative movement towards something

Catherine Meeks

Dr. Catherine Meeks is a storyteller with a purpose. Born in 1946 in segregated Arkansas, Meeks has spent a lifetime working on issues of racial healing and the promotion of life. The daughter of a sharecropper and a teacher, she grew up hearing her father talk about a 12-year-old brother who died from a burst appendix before she was

The Third Sunday in Lent

What if, maybe starting with those 10 Commandments, we saw the rules we live by not so much as boundaries and walls to protect us, but as windows into the world? As ways of structuring awareness. Openings through which we look at more and more of the life we’ve been given together on this earth and ask what love

The Second Sunday in Lent

Jesus enters the scene and starts talking about losing everything, and I hear him saying ‘quite openly’ that a broken world needs a story about breaking.

The First Sunday in Lent

Like Jesus, you will walk into some days certain on some level that you’re as worthy of love and dignity as any other human being, and then, a moment later, become deeply unsure of this truth and look elsewhere for your identity.

John Pitzer

The Rev. John Pitzer is a native of Texas and currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he serves at Trinity Episcopal Church as associate rector of outreach/mission and pastoral care. For twenty years, Pitzer was a friar with the Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominicans. He served at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Memphis which has

Ash Wednesday

Once we are reconciled to God, we become part of God’s ministry of reconciliation. The best way we can continually fill the hole in the heart of God and the holes in our own hearts is to reconcile with one another. Not just when it’s easy, but most especially when it’s hard, even when it seems impossible.

The Last Sunday after the Epiphany

Heaven and earth are full of such invisible and illuminating glories. I believe that’s true, and I have trouble remembering that I believe that.