Steve Montgomery was ordained in 1980 and became senior pastor at Idlewild Presbyterian Church in 2000 after serving churches in Appalachia and Atlanta. He retired from Idlewild May 5, 2019.
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After nearly 20 years as senior pastor of Idlewild Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Dr. Steve Montgomery leads his last service before retiring on Sunday, May 5. The Daily Memphian asked him to summarize his thoughts as he steps away from the pulpit. He replied with a list of "12 things I have learned in the ministry."
Listen to the prophets Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and today’s prophets, like William Barber II and Bryan Stevenson. Don’t simply say “I am not a racist,” but “I know I’ve got to do more.”
Do we just pray for our environment? Or pray for children being separated from their parents? Or might the faith communities be called to engage in … dare I suggest it … politics?
There is a chance that this might be the most authentic, biblical Easter many of us have experienced in our lifetime.
Poets, artists and musicians historically have been able to speak the truth when the truth is hard to come by, and sometimes do more more to help people through the crises they face than so-called experts.
There is such a thing as white privilege, no matter the circumstances in which we were raised. My father was raised in dire poverty. And yet he was the first to admit that color never kept him back. He never feared for his life just for being white. He was never denied a bank loan. He was admitted to the University of Texas at a time when blacks were not allowed to enroll.
Bree Newsome is the African American woman who scaled the flagpole at the South Carolina capital to bring down the Confederate flag after Dylann Roof killed nine people in Charleston, South Carolina. It is my hope that her name is not relegated to the dustbins of trivial history. Bree Newsome. Hardly trivial.
C.T. Vivian said that while his generation didn’t get everything accomplished, they did their work so well that our generation could not believe what life was like before they went to work.
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