Memphis Local, Sports, Business & Food News | Daily Memphian | Steve Montgomery https://dailymemphian.com/feed/authors/260 The Daily Memphian is the must-read, daily online newspaper for in-depth, local journalism in Memphis and the Mid-South. Sign up for morning and evening editions, plus breaking news. (c) 2024 Opinion: Let's not forget C.T. Vivian https://dailymemphian.com/article/15615 <p>C.T. Vivian said that while his generation didn&rsquo;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.</p> revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) Opinion Guest Columnists https://dailymemphian.com/article/15615 Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:00:14 -0500 Opinion: When trivia isn't trivial https://dailymemphian.com/article/15539 <p>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.</p> revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) Front Page Opinion Guest Columnists https://dailymemphian.com/article/15539 Sun, 19 Jul 2020 14:22:29 -0500 Listening, and learning how to be an antiracist https://dailymemphian.com/article/14832 <p>There is such a thing as white privilege, no matter the circumstances in which we were raised.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;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.</p> revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) Front Page Opinion Guest Columnists https://dailymemphian.com/article/14832 Sun, 14 Jun 2020 04:00:10 -0500 Let's take some cues from poets in a pandemic https://dailymemphian.com/article/14073 <p>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.</p> revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) Opinion Guest Columnists Front Page https://dailymemphian.com/article/14073 Sun, 17 May 2020 04:00:15 -0500 Sanctuaries are empty, and that's good news https://dailymemphian.com/article/12867 <p>There is a chance that this might be the most authentic, biblical Easter many of us have experienced in our lifetime.&nbsp;</p> revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) Front Page Opinion https://dailymemphian.com/article/12867 Sun, 12 Apr 2020 04:00:06 -0500 Montgomery: Are people of faith limited to thoughts and prayers? https://dailymemphian.com/article/11609 <p>Do we just pray for our environment? Or pray for children being separated from their parents?&nbsp;Or might the faith communities be called to engage in &hellip; dare I suggest it &hellip;&nbsp;<em>politics?</em></p> revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) Front Page Opinion Guest Columnists https://dailymemphian.com/article/11609 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 04:05:00 -0500 Unmasking racism, every day of the year https://dailymemphian.com/article/10758 <p>Listen to the prophets Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and today’s prophets, like William Barber II and Bryan Stevenson.&nbsp;Don’t simply say “I am not a racist,” but “I know I’ve got to do more.”</p> revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) Opinion Guest Columnists Front Page https://dailymemphian.com/article/10758 Sun, 16 Feb 2020 04:39:36 -0600 12 things I have learned in the ministry https://dailymemphian.com/article/4865 <p>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."</p> revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) Opinion Guest Columnists https://dailymemphian.com/article/4865 Sun, 5 May 2019 04:00:00 -0500