Liturgy of Lament  | Psalm 64 | Matthew 11:20-30 | November 13th, 2022 | Rev. Danny Byant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) 

Readings and Resources: "What Are People For" and "Healing" - Wendell Berry | "On Being Asked to Write a Poem About the War in Vietnam" - Hayden Carruth | Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman 

Hear Dr. Layla Bonner, Dr. Deandrea Witherspoon Nash, and Fr. Danny talking about the Equitable Healing Reparations Initiative moving into its new life as the Black Mental Health Counselor Reparations Foundation. We are nearing the launch of the foundation and want to share the news and story with St. Mary’s before it is officially on its own.

Proper 25 - the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost  | Joel 2:23-32 | Psalm 65 | 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 (all NT readings from First Nations Version) | Luke 18:9-14 | October 23rd, 2022 | Rev. Danny Byant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) 

Readings and Resources: Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman | The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky 

Proper 24 - the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost  | Genesis 32:22-31 | Psalm 121 | 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 (all NT readings from First Nations Version) | Luke 18:1-8 | October 16th, 2022 | Rev. Danny Byant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) 

Readings and Resources: A Passion for God - Johann Baptist Metz | "When the Dreams Run Dry" - the Killers | The Awakened Heart - Gerald May | After Whiteness - Willie James Jennings | CAC Email - Richard Rohr

Proper 23 - the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost  | Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 | Psalm 66 | 2 Timothy 2:8-15 (all NT readings from First Nations Version) | Luke 17:11-19 | October 9th, 2022 | Rev. Danny Byant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) 

Readings and Resources: Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman

Proper 21 - the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost  | Amos 6:1a, 4-7 | Psalm 146 | 1 Timothy 6:6-19 (all NT readings from First Nations Version) | Luke 16:19-31 | September 26th, 2022 | Rev. Danny Byant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) 

Readings and Resources: The Grace that Shaped My Life - Nicholas Wolterstorff | Quote from David Bentley Hart from a podcast | The Prophetic Imagination - Walter Brueggemann | Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman | "They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave" - Woody Guthrie | "Amos" block print - Rev. Lauren Plummer 

Proper 19 - the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost  | Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 | Psalm 14 | 1 Timothy 1:12-17 (all NT readings from First Nations Version) | Luke 15:1-10 | September 11th, 2022 | Rev. Danny Byant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) 

Readings and Resources: | Telling Secrets - Frederick Buechner | After Whiteness - Willie James Jennings 

Proper 18 - the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost  | Jeremiah 18:1-11 | Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17 | Philemon 1:1-21 (all NT readings from First Nations Version) | Luke 14:25-33 | September 4th, 2022 | Rev. Danny Byant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) 

Readings and Resources: | Theology of Failure - Marika Rose | The Crucified God - Jürgen Moltmann | True to Our Native Land and Stony the Road We Trod - Lloyd A. Lewis | Children of Divorce - Andrew Root | Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible - Willie James Jennings 

Proper 17 - the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost | Taizé and Contemplation | Psalm 112 | Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 (all NT readings from First Nations Version) | Luke 14:1, 7-14 | August 28th, 2022 | Pace Verner | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) 

Readings and Resources: Prayer of St. Aelred of Reivaulx | The Whole Language - The Power of Extravagant Tenderness - Gregory Boyle | "Everything" - Taylor Leonhardt | "Jesus as Shepherd Carrying Lamb on Shoulders Through Water" - painting by Melani Pyke | Blessing by Alistair Maclean (from Hebridean Altars) 

Proper 16 - the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost | Jeremiah 1:4-10 | Psalm 71 | Hebrews 12:18-29 (all NT readings from First Nations Version) | Luke 13:10-17 | August 14th, 2022 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) 

Readings and Resources: A Commentary on Jeremiah: Exile and Homecoming - Walter Brueggemann | Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson | Tweet by Kristin Kobes Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne | Faith After Doubt - Brian McLaren | A Burning in My Bones - Winn Collier | The God Who Gave You Birth - Cyprian Consiglio | "The Mad Farmer Flying the Flag of Rough Branch Seceded from the Union" - Wendell Berry