In our Praying the Psalms class on Sunday mornings, we have discussed two of the images often depicted in the Psalms – the pit and the wings. The pit is the place in which people are put to render them null and void. It is the place where we are reduced to powerlessness. It is
Calvary received a call from the police Tuesday morning to tell us that the stolen truck had been located on a residential street in Raleigh! Rector Scott Walters and Organist-Choirmaster Kristin Lensch raced (while obeying speed limit laws, we are sure) to the scene and discovered that most of our organ pipes were still located inside the truck.
Memphis, Tenn., May 15, 2023 – Sometime during the night or early morning of May 13-14, a 26-foot yellow Penske moving truck, license plate T65589 MA, loaded with around 2,000 historic organ pipes was stolen from Calvary Episcopal Church.
The pipes, which are original to the 1935 Aeolian-Skinner organ at Calvary, were loaded onto the truck last week to travel
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the word flourish. This morning, I finished up a stool I made with a scrap of cyprus, the last bit of several thick planks I retrieved from my friend Robert’s shop on South Main before he sold it to a developer and moved to Franklin. The board was pretty
Calvary Episcopal Church is seeking a caring and nurturing individual to join our nursery team and work on Sunday mornings from 7:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Additional childcare opportunities may become available as we continue to expand our program offerings.
We wish Brian Campbell friendly skies as he leaves Calvary to pull and flip a different set of knobs and levers. He will pursue a full-time career as a pilot with SkyWest Airlines this month. Sunday, May 14, will be his last Sunday.
These words, attributed to Albert Camus, the Algerian-born French philosopher, author, journalist, and recipient of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, have seen me through many a ‘harsh winter.’
I first read them on a small scroll hanging in a bookstore, and since the scroll was for sale, I bought it and nailed it on
Hanging in my office is an icon of Mary Magdelene holding a red egg. I love it. Partly because for years my mom participated in an annual icon-writing workshop at Holy Communion, and this icon is a gift from that class. Also, Mary
Here’s a story told by Wendell Berry in an essay called “The Burden of the Gospels”:
In 1569 in Holland, a Mennonite named Dirk Willems, under capital sentence as a heretic, was fleeing from arrest, pursued by a ‘thief-catcher.’ As they ran across a frozen body of water, the thief-catcher broke
by the Rev. Paul McLain
We are hurting, angry, and reeling from the senseless shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, resulting in the deaths of 3 children and 3 adults, as well as the life of the shooter. We were already reeling from the deaths of 26 people in the storms and tornados in our region over the weekend that