In the thirteenth chapter of Matthew’s gospel, Jesus flings out parables like a sower flinging seed across a field:
“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in a field…The kingdom of God is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with flour…The kingdom of God is like a
The communion rails have been removed and are leaning against the wall beneath the organ chamber screens, which are covered in Visqueen. The organ console is armored in a plywood box, and the pews have been numbered and unbolted from the floor. The 1950s oak parquet in the chancel has come
Forty-nine years ago, on July 29, 1974, eleven women were ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church. There are eleven particular stories to tell about these women, and more stories to tell about the three bishops who chose to lay hands on their heads and bring them into the priesthood.
With all due respect to Oscar Wilde who smugly opined, ‘conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative,’ let’s talk about the weather we’ve been having lately: Not just the insufferable heat and humidity in Memphis, but also the bizarre weather that has befallen the coast of Maine where I have been
Dwell is one of my favorite words. It sounds a little old-fashioned, or maybe like a word from a fairy tale, conjuring a hidden home in the woods. In the Bible, it’s repeated all the way through from dwelling in tents to sparrows dwelling near the altar to Christ dwelling in the world
Do you know about the Merlin app? If not, I have a wonderful tip for you. Merlin is a free global bird guide for birds in the US, Canada, and Europe, the perfect companion for summer travels as well as staycations. I learned about it this spring from my friend Barbara, a seasoned naturalist.
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