St. Mary of Bethany—Nashville

The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost | 2 Corinthians 6:1-13| Psalm 133 | Mark 4:35-41 | June 23rd, 2024 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Fourths Sunday after Pentecost | 2 Corinthians 5:6-14 | Psalm 92 | Mark 4:26-34 | June 16th, 2024 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Third Sunday after Pentecost | 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 | Psalm 130 | Mark 3:20-35 | June 9th, 2024 | Rev. Mike Gregg | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Second Sunday after Pentecost | 2 Corinthians 4:5-12 | Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 | Mark 2:23-3:6 | June 2nd, 2024 | Fr. Bruce Morrill | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

Trinity Sunday | Romans 8:12-17 | Psalm 29 | John 3:1-17 | May 26th | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Seventh Sunday of Easter | Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 | Psalm 1 | 1 John 5:9-13 | John 17:6-19 | May 12th, 2024 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

Pentecost | Acts 2:1-12 | Psalm 104:24-34, 35b | John 15:25-27; 16:4b-15 | May 19th, 2024 | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) In this homily, Danny, Flo, and Kelley discuss St. Mary's move from an Anglican church to an ecumenical Eucharistic community.

The Fifth Sunday of Easter | Acts 8:26-40 | Psalm 22:25-31 | 1 John 4:7-21 | John 15:1-8 | April 28th 2024 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings & Resources: My Bright Abyss - Christian Wiman | Sabbath as Resistance - Walter Brueggemann | Addiction and Grace - Gerald May

The Fourth Sunday of Easter | Acts 4:5-12 | Psalm 23 | 1 John 3:16-24 | John 10:11-18 | April 21st 2024 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings & Resources: Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible - Willie James Jennings | "Native Tongue" - Sara Groves | My Bright Abyss - Christian Wiman | Joy: 100 Poems - Christian Wiman

The Third Sunday of Easter | Acts 3:12-19 | Psalm 4 | 1 John 3:1-7 | Luke 24:36b-48 | April 14th 2024 | Rev. Bruce Morrill | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

In this Common Conversation from March 28th, we discuss how grief & loss show up in our lives, what meaning we encounter in the stories of our faith & the natural world, and how we can accompany & support one another as we grieve. Our panelists include Rev. Flo Oakes, children's pastor at St. Mary's, and Meg Wade, poet and interfaith chaplain at Larkspur Conservation, Tennessee's natural burial site. Rev. Deborah Lynn, a chaplain at Alive Hospice, shares poetry and story with musical accompaniment by Libby Watrous. Rev. Kelley Doyle moderates.

The Second Sunday of Easter | Acts 4:32-35 | Psalm 133 | 1 John 1:1-2:2 | John 20:19-31 | April 7th 2024 | Rev. Danny Byrant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings & Resources: The Whole Language: the Power of Extravagant Tenderness - Gregory Boyle | Christian Life: an Adventure in Love - Ilia Delio

Easter | Isaiah 25:6-9 | Psalm 118 | Acts 10:34-43 | John 20:1-18 | March 31st, 2024 | Rev. Danny Byrant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Fifth Sunday in Lent | Jeremiah 31:31-34 | Psalm 119:9-16 | Hebrews 5:5-10 | John 12:20-33 | March 17th, 2024 | Rev. Flo Oakes | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Third Sunday in Lent | Exodus 20:1-17 | Psalm 19 | 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 | John 2:13-22 | March 3rd, 2024 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Second Sunday in Lent | Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 | Psalm 22:23-31 | Romans 4:13-25 | Mark 8:31-38 | February 25th, 2024 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The First Sunday in Lent | Genesis 9:8-17 | Psalm 25:1-10 | 1 Peter 3:18-22 | Mark 1:9-15 | February 18th, 2024 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany | Isaiah 40:21-31 | Psalm 147:1-12 | 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 | Mark 1:29-39 | February 4th, 2024 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany | Deuteronomy 18:15-20 | Psalm 111 | 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 | Mark 1:21-28 | January 28th, 2024 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Second Sunday after the Epiphany | 1 Samuel 3:1-10 | Psalm 139 | 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20 | M John 1:43-51 | January 14th, 2024 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings & Resources: Prayer and Modern Man - Jacques Ellul | "How to Be a Poet" - Wendell Berry

The First Sunday after the Epiphany | Genesis 1:1-5 | Psalm 29 | Acts 19:1-7 | Mark 1:4-11 | January 7th, 2024 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

Christmas Eve | The Magnificat | Luke 2:1-20 | December 24th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Third Sunday of Advent | Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 | Psalm 126 | 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 | John 1:6-8, 19-28 | December 17th, 2023 | Rev. Flo Oakes | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: "The Cure for Sorrow" - Jan Richardson

This is a recording of a recent Order of Bethany Info Meeting. St. Mary's offers a way of membership in the community called the Order of Bethany and is open to anyone who desires to live this way of life together. The vows for the order are vows of fidelity, hospitality, solidarity, and levity, and grow from the lives of the saints in Bethany: Mary, Martha, Simon the Leper, and Lazarus. The vows are simple ways of committing to God, one another, and the world with a posture of joy for one year.

Last year, St. Mary's hosted a Common Conversation on Advent, Soul Care, and Economic Justice with Dr. Bruce Rogers-Vaughn and Fr. Bruce Morrill. This follow up discussion centers on neoliberalism and theology, and how, through community, we might resist the systems that create myriad inequalities. You can watch the video here.

The Second Sunday of Advent | Isaiah 40:1-11 | Psalm 85 | 2 Peter 3:8-15a | Mark 1:1-8 | December 10th, 2023 | Rev. Kelley Doyle | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: "Commentary on Isaiah 40:11" from Working Preacher - Dr. Anathea Portier-Young | Feasting on the Word: Year B, Volume 1 - ed. David Bartlett, Barbara Brown Taylor | "Quite Early Morning" - Pete Seeger

Common Conversation: BMHCR Thursday, December 7th at Glendale Baptist Church This conversation features Dr. Layla Bonner, Dr. DeAndrea Witherspoon Nash, and Rev. Dr. Danny Bryant, founders of the Black Mental Health Counselor Reparations Foundation (BMHCR). They discuss the vision and mission of the foundation, the future work we hope to do, and how this foundation can be an example of the fruit of ecclesial reparation work. BMHCR is currently paying loan debt for a Black mental health counselor in Nashville. This was recorded live in a recent Common Conversation, a series of talks on theology & practice hosted by St. Mary's.

The First Sunday of Advent | Isaiah 64:1-9 | Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19 | 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 | Mark 12:24-38 | December 3rd, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: Christophany - Raimon Panikkar | Fidelity - Wendell Berry | Into the Silent Land - Martin Laird | St. Francis of Assisi | G.K. Chesterton | "With God On Our Side" - Bob Dylan

The Ordination of Flo Paris Oakes | Isaiah 6:1-8 | Psalm 121 | Philippians 4:4-9 | John 10:11-18 | November 12th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

This is part of a series of follow-up talks from our Common Conversation back in August about Faith in Nashville. You can listen to that here. In this podcast, Danny Bryant and Anna Caudill discuss questions around salvation and politics, particularly as they relate to disability theology.

The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost | Deuteronomy 23:1-12 | Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17 | 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 | Matthew 22:34-46 | October 29th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: Crisis Contemplation - Barbara Holmes | Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age - Bruce Rogers Vaughn | Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community - Pádraig Ó Tuama | The Books of Moses - Robert Alter

The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost | Exodus 33:12-23 | Psalm 96 | 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 | Matthew 22:15-22 | October 22nd, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: Crisis Contemplation - Barbara Holmes | The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | In the Shelter - Padraig O'Tuama | Remembering - Wendell Berry

The Eigtheenth Sunday after Pentecost | Exodus 17:1-17 | Psalm 25:1-9 | Philippians 2:1-13 | Matthew 21:23-32 | October 1st, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost | Exodus 16:2-15 | Psalm 145:1-8 | Philippians 1:21-30 | Matthew 20:1-16 | September 24th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: Christian Life: An Adventure in Love - Ilia Delio | Addiction and Grace - Gerald May | Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community - Padraig O'Tuama | Beloved - Toni Morrison

The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Exodus 14:19-31 | Psalm 95 | Romans 14:1-12 | Matthew 18:21-35 | September 17th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: Romans for Normal People - Daniel Kirk | The Book of Psalms - Robert Alter

The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Exodus 12:1-14 | Psalm 149 | Romans 13:8-14 | Matthew 18:15-20 | September 10th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: Jesus' Alternative Plan - Richard Rohr | The Meal Jesus Gave Us - N.T. Wright | Two Economies - Wendell Berry | The Bible Made Impossible - Christian Smith | The Art of Reading Scripture - various authors

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Exodus 3:1-15 | Psalm 105 | Romans 12:9-21 | Matthew 16:21-28 | September 3rd, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: Romans for Normal People - Daniel Kirk | The Books of Moses: Commentary & Translation - Robert Alter | Remembering and Resisting - Johann Baptiste Metz | Into the Silent Land - Martin Larid | Joy Unspeakable - Barbara Holmes

The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost - Annual Meeting | Psalm 23 | Acts 2:42-47 | August 27th, 2023 | The St. Mary's Staff | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

Common Conversation: Faith in Nashville Thursday, August 17th at Glendale Baptist Church Listen to Danny Bryant, Anna Caudill, and David Dark discuss the challenges & promises of Christianity in Nashville. In a city where celebrity, profits, politics, and faith are so deeply enmeshed, how do we create and sustain beloved community? This was recorded live in a recent Common Conversation, a series hosted by St. Mary's.

The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost | Psalm 139 | Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 | August 20th, 2023 | Rev. Flo Oakes | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: "Sometimes" - Mary Oliver | The Religious Potential of the Child - Sofia Cavalletti | Midrash: Reading the Bible with Question Marks - Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost | Psalm 133 | John 12:1-11 | August 13th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: Parable of the Mustard Seed Icon by Kelly Latimore | An Invitation to Kenotic Generosity in the Religiously Pluralistic Situation - Dr. Lauren Smelser White | The God Who Gave You Birth - Cyprian Consiglio | Bethany Near the Mount of Olives - Brian Capper

The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost | Psalm 128 | Matthew 14:13-21 | August 8th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now - Walter Brueggemann

The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost | Psalm 127 | Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 | July 30th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN)

The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost | Psalm 126 | Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 | July 23rd, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: Jesus and the Disinherited - Howard Thurman | Kingdom, Grace, Judgement: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus - Robert Capon | Acts: A Theological Commentary on the Bible - Willie James Jennings

The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost | Psalm 125 | Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 | July 16th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: The Art of the Commonplace - Wendell Berry | Kingdom, Grace, Judgement: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus - Robert Capon

The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost | Psalm 123 | Matthew 10:40-42 | July 2nd, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community - Pádraig Ó Tuama

The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost | Psalm 121 | Matthew 9:35-10:8 | June 18th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources (art): "Pacifist" - Shaun Tan | "Trinity" - Andrei Rublev

The Third Sunday after Pentecost | Psalm 120 | Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 | June 11th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: Christian Life: An Adventure in Love - Ilia Delio | "Breathe" - U2 | "Tiny Cup" - Sandra McCracken

The Sixth Sunday of Easter | Acts 17:22-31 | Psalm 66:8-20 | 1 Peter 3:13-22 | John 14:15-21 | May 14th, 2023 | Rev. Danny Bryant | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky | "Love is Everywhere (Beware) - Wilco | 1 Corinthians 13 - The Message translation

The Fifth Sunday of Easter | Acts 7:55-60 | Psalm 31 | 1 Peter 2:2-10 | John 14:1-14 | May 7th, 2023 | Rev. Kelley Doyle | St. Mary of Bethany Parish (Nashville, TN) Readings and Resources: "After Her Death" - Mary Oliver | "Fifth Sunday of Easter: A Collective People with a Singular Heart" - Dr. Angela Parker | Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence - Diana Butler Bass