Glad Tidings

Join Emily Austin as she talks with the Rev. Robert Tobin, a historian and priest in the Church of England. They will discuss his latest book, Privilege & Prophecy: Social Activism in the Post-War Episcopal Church.

Purchase Privilege and Prophecy on Amazon or on Oxford University Press. 

ABOUT OUR GUEST

You can learn more about the Episcopal Church in West Tennessee at EDWTN.org. Questions? Comments? Requests? Drop Emily Austin a line at [email protected].

Have you ever wondered what exactly a spiritual director is and why people of faith seek them out? So did Emily Austin. Join her for a conversation with the Rev. Dr. Jesse Abell and Denise Hensley, two people who undertand the value of engaging in sacred conversations - both as spiritual directors and as directees. We also talk about the Feast of the Martyrs of Memphis, celebrated on September 9. 

In her first time hosting Faithfully Memphis, the Reverend Lisa McIndoo (Church of the Holy Apostles in Collierville, Tennessee) chats with Casey Jordan, an artist and active parishioner at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Jackson, Tennessee, about the role artistic creativity and expression plays in his spirituality. Lisa also continues last week's discussion around the Feast of Saint Mary the Virgin, which is celebrated on August 15. 

Emily Austin talks with Clarence Davis, who is creating the art for the 2022 EDWTN Christmas card, about his lifelong love of creative expression. Additionally, Emily is joined by Shannon Curtis, Pastoral Assistant at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Memphis, to talk about St. Mary.

ABOUT THIS SERIES

In this episode of Faithfully Memphis, Bishop Phoebe Roaf is joined in conversation with Diana Comes, the Executive Director of the Community Legal Center in Memphis. Founded in 1994 as AWA Family Mediation Center, the CLC is a nonprofit organization that represents vulnerable people in Memphis and Shelby County. Learn more about their work at clcmemphis.org. 

ABOUT DIANA

Diana M. Comes serves as the Executive Director of the Community Legal Center. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Rhodes College in 2008 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 2011. Following graduation from law school, Ms. Comes served as a judicial law clerk for the Hon. Jon P. McCalla, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, and the Hon. Ronald L. Gilman, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She then joined the Memphis office of Butler Snow LLP, where she was an associate and then partner practicing primarily in the areas of commercial and appellate litigation, before joining the Community Legal Center in 2021. During her time in private practice, Ms. Comes was named as a SuperLawyers Mid-South Rising Star in the area of Business Litigation from 2017-2020 and to Best Lawyers in America in the area of Commercial Litigation from 2020-2021.

Diana is a past president of the Memphis-based Association for Women Attorneys and a board chair of the Memphis Farmers Market. She is a graduate of the New Memphis Institute Fellows program as well as the Tennessee Bar Association’s Leadership Law program.

This week on Faithfully Memphis, our series on Episcopal polity and governance - Of One Heart and Of One Soul - wraps with a conversation with the Reverend Gary Meade (Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in Dyersburg, Tennessee) with members of the West Tennessee delegation to the 80th General Convention of the Episcopal Church: the Rev. Canon Sharon Alexander, the Rev. Chuck McMillion, Scott Haight, Lavonnie Perry Claybon, the Rev. Gerri Endicott, and Terecille Basa-Ong. 

This week, our series of conversations with leaders from The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion continues with Bishop Phoebe talking with Mandy Marshall, who is the Director for Gender Justice of the Anglican Communion. 

All of us at the EDWTN were deeply saddened by the death of Mia Madison, Executive Director of @memphistilth, earlier this month. Mia was a beautiful soul whose love for her family, God’s creation, and her community was evident to all who had the pleasure of knowing and working with her. We were honored to have her as a guest on Faithfully Memphis earlier this year during our series on creation care and stewardship, so this week, we are replaying her conversation with Bishop Phoebe.

TW: This episode of Faithfully Memphis contains discussion of violence and the taking of one's own life. Please take care while listening.

We're pausing our Of One Heart & of One Soul series this week for a powerful discussion with Ericka Kelly and Mary Powers, two mothers who both lost children to senseless gun violence. They talk with Emily Austin about how their faith has guided them through their grief and motivated them toward advocacy work with the Memphis chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. We also learn about Argula Von Grumbach - the first published Protestant woman writer - whose feast day is celebrated on July 14. 

For complete information about the Prayer in Action event on Saturday, July 16, 2022 at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Memphis, please click here.

Featured music: "Dionne" by Osunlade

"Saint of the Day" Source: Forward Movement (https://prayer.forwardmovement.org/calendar/argula-von-grumbach)

In the second installment of Of One Heart & of One Soul, a new Faithfully Memphis series featuring conversations with Episcopal and Anglican leaders, Bishop Phoebe sits down for a hope-filled, honest, inspiring conversation with the Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers, Canon for Evangelism and Reconciliation for The Episcopal Church, about what it means to be the Beloved Community in a rapidly changing world. You will not want to miss this inspiring dialog that was taped earlier this year during Canon Spellers' visit to West Tennessee!