There are 17 article(s) tagged Calvary Episcopal Church:

• February 2024

  • Tom Lee museum, slave market memorial receive national funding

    The museum will be a repository of Klondike’s memories, including the untold stories of the people who shaped it, starting with Tom Lee himself.

    By Jane Roberts February 23, 2024

• May 2023

  • After more stolen pipes found, Calvary organ restoration back on track

    “I do keep telling myself that, 100 years from now, this will be another great Calvary story in the lore.”

    By Jane Roberts May 31, 2023

  • Calvary Place to close after three decades

    “When people think about Calvary, I want them to think these babies got good care and good love,” said Audrey Ivory, who’s worked at Calvary Place Child Care for more than 20 years. “I hope that people remember the legacy of Calvary as like a family...”

    By Alicia Davidson May 30, 2023

  • Calvary recovers missing organ pipes

    “A final inventory cannot be completed until this remaining pipework is delivered to Boston, but we are hopeful that it contains everything that is missing,” the church said in an Instagram post. 

    By Abigail Warren May 29, 2023

  • Stolen truck with Calvary’s organ parts found, but many pipes still missing

    The 26-foot Penske truck, loaded with 2,000 pipes from Calvary Episcopal Church’s organ, was stolen over the weekend.

    Related story: 

    Calvary lost 2,000 organ pipes in rental truck theft over weekend

    By Jane Roberts May 17, 2023

  • Calvary lost 2,000 organ pipes in rental truck theft over weekend

    Truck was parked overnight on Adams Avenue at Second Street.

    By Jane Roberts May 15, 2023

• February 2023

  • Calvary Episcopal’s preaching series turns 100 with a roster full of favorites 

    The Lenten Preaching Series celebrates its 100th birthday this year, starting Wednesday when Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meacham will be in the pulpit.

    By Jane Roberts February 20, 2023

• June 2022

  • If the shoe fits: Homeless get right-size footwear thanks to thoughtful plan

    COVID gutted the distribution networks for street gold like shoes, belts and sleeping bags. But Pam Scarbrough of Community Alliance for the Homeless found a way around it.

    By Jane Roberts June 11, 2022

• March 2022

  • Conaway: Making the best of Lent

    “I look forward to the return of Lent ... To the return of the Word and waffles Downtown at 102 N. Second St.”

    By Dan Conaway March 11, 2022

  • Calvary Waffle Shop, a tradition since 1928, is back for 2022

    After closing early in 2020 and pivoting to takeout in 2021, Calvary Waffle Shop is back, and it brought its fish pudding and tomato aspic with it.

    By Jennifer Biggs March 09, 2022

• April 2021

  • Damaged historical marker at former slave market rededicated Downtown

    The marker notes the location of a slave market run by Nathan Bedford Forrest. 

    By The Daily Memphian Staff April 07, 2021

• July 2020

  • Forrest slave market historic marker damaged, to be repaired

    It is the second historical marker to be snapped in two from its base in the past month. The rector of Calvary Episcopal Church says the marker, noting the location of Nathan Bedford Forrest's slave market, will be repaired and reinstalled as soon as possible.

    By Bill Dries July 19, 2020

• March 2020

  • A message to ‘Stay Woke’ at Lenten Preaching Series

    Rev. Sonia Louden Walker is the speaker Tuesday, March 10, for the Calvary Lenten Preaching Series, which continues Tuesdays to Fridays through April 3 at Calvary Episcopal Church, 102 N. Second St.

    By Sonia Louden Walker March 08, 2020

  • Conaway: A new knee and old comfort from Calvary’s Waffle Shop

    We have sure and certain knowledge of homemade mayonnaise. Yea and verily, shrimp mousse and tomato aspic jiggle. Behold the turnip greens and be glad in them. Take the fish pudding by faith.

    By Dan Conaway March 05, 2020

• December 2019

  • Nelson: A prize-winning author revisits his troubling time in Memphis

    Gay, black and much, much more, Saeed Jones defies prevailing stereotypes. 

    By Michael Nelson December 10, 2019

• March 2019

  • Nelson: Remembering MLK50 on the Eve of MLK51

    A bland marker erected near the midpoint of an almost century-long celebration of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis now has a new companion marker. It describes the grotesque nature of Forrest's "business enterprise." 

    By Michael Nelson March 28, 2019

  • Conaway: The recipe for Lent

    For those of you who don’t understand the idea of tomato aspic, understand this: You’re living in the South and at some important point in life, you'll be in a place where it’s wiggling right in front of you. A place like the Calvary Waffle Shop during Lent, for instance.

    By Dan Conaway March 21, 2019