Memphis Local, Sports, Business & Food News | Daily Memphian | Steve Montgomery

Opinion: Let's not forget C.T. Vivian

revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:00:14 -0500

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.

Opinion: When trivia isn't trivial

revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 14:22:29 -0500

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.

Listening, and learning how to be an antiracist

revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 04:00:10 -0500

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.

Let's take some cues from poets in a pandemic

revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) — Sun, 17 May 2020 04:00:15 -0500

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.

Sanctuaries are empty, and that's good news

revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 04:00:06 -0500

There is a chance that this might be the most authentic, biblical Easter many of us have experienced in our lifetime.

Montgomery: Are people of faith limited to thoughts and prayers?

revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 04:05:00 -0500

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?

Unmasking racism, every day of the year

revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 04:39:36 -0600

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.”

12 things I have learned in the ministry

revsteve@idlewildchurch.org (Steve Montgomery) — Sun, 5 May 2019 04:00:00 -0500

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."