The Givenness of Things

This collection offers selected sermons of Jim Callahan, Rector of St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church from 1982-2000, Irish poet priest, teller of tales, and advocate for ministry of Outreach.

These very literary sermons include words from theological figures like Diedrich Bonhoeffer and Frederich Buechner, and from Shakespeare, Dickens, Frost, Cormac McCarthy, to name a few, and, perhaps most powerfully, characters Jim loved to talk about, his notorious Uncle Henry and Aunt Sue Belle and Mama...