Calvary Episcopal Church - Memphis, TN Calvary Episcopal Church
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Calvary is an eclectic bunch of Christian people who don’t all think the same thoughts, or dress the same way, or vote for the same candidates, or even believe all the same things about the mystery of God and what it means to be human. But we believe we need each other because of our differences, not in spite of them. So, whoever you are, wherever you come from, whatever joys or burdens you carry, you are welcome at Calvary Episcopal Church.
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The Rev. Paul McLain: The Third Sunday after Pentecost: June 9, 2024
Paul sees the mission of Jesus as renewing the unseen foundation of humankind. Christ’s mission teaches us that the pathway to the eternal is not through temporary outward fame or success, but through an inner core of gratitude, humility and service. His mission is to draw us into the ultimate peace that comes from serving a being and a community greater than ourselves.
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The Rev. Scott Walters: The Second Sunday after Pentecost: June 2, 2024
For all of Eli’s flaws, he is surely a model for any of us called to hold space for anyone else to doubt whatever settled certainty is keeping them from hearing the life God might be calling them to live.
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The Rev. Scott Walters: Trinity Sunday
Maybe we could use a reminder that, when we try to talk about God, we are oysters, looking at starfish, trying to imagine a ballerina.
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The Rev. Paul McLain: The Feast of Pentecost
In our lesson from the Acts of the Apostles, the strange signs of wind and fire point not to themselves but to the wild power of the Holy Spirit unleashed not to scatter but to gather, unleashed not to destroy but to re-create.
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The Rev. Scott Walters: The Seventh Sunday of Easter
Jesus says that love is what makes space for the truth to emerge. Love and truth are twin pillars, we might even say, that hold things up so the walls we hide behind can finally come down. Only in truthfulness and love will we become one as Jesus and the God he still draws us to are one.
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The Rev. Katherine Bush: The Sixth Sunday of Easter
I don’t always know how to do this: how to love this broken place and these broken people and my own broken self. I’m wondering now if staying put is in and of itself an act of love.