There are 8 article(s) tagged David Waters:

• 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

• July 2022

  • Waters: Rev. Eason-Williams’ hope and struggle is ours as well

    Slain Methodist minister’s faith and fear compelled her to build “community of shalom” amid culture of violence.

    By David Waters July 24, 2022

• February 2022

  • From Hurt Village to Uptown to where? Public housing residents forced, again, to move

    For the second time in a generation, residents are on the move as MHA “converts” public housing to privately managed properties.

    By David Waters February 09, 2022

• May 2020

  • The ones we’ve lost: Area sees 100 local COVID-19 deaths and counting

    The death count is dramatically lower than early warnings, but no less tragic, as coronavirus precautions left many victims to die alone, isolated from their spouses and children, dear friends and clergy.

    By David Waters May 29, 2020

• March 2020

  • Waters: As pandemic advances, faith leaders embrace worship services for the digital age

    “One of our biggest challenges is that many people don’t believe in the seriousness of this pandemic,” Catholic Bishop David Talley told colleagues in a webinar. “Please believe in what science is saying. This is not the devil. This is what science is telling us.”

    By David Waters March 20, 2020

• January 2020

  • Waters: They came to learn Greek, and stayed for Father Vieron

    Monday, for the first time in 48 years, Rev. Nicholas Vieron will not conduct his annual Adult Greek Class, a Memphis tradition. His mind and soul are willing. His body, not so much these days.

    By David Waters January 17, 2020

• May 2019

  • Waters: A couple say farewell to Memphis after ‘grueling but healing’ work on the Lynching Sites Project

    Randall Mullins and Sharon Pavelda founded a project to identify and memorialize lynching sites in Shelby County, and helped create a community of supporters, from the National Park Service to the local NAACP, preachers and politicians, activists and academics.

    By David Waters May 29, 2019

• February 2019

  • David Waters joins U of M’s Institute for Public Service Reporting

    David Waters is joining the University of Memphis' Institute for Public Service Reporting as assistant director. The Daily Memphian is exclusive publisher of the institute's reporting.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff February 28, 2019