Cheryl Cornish @cherylfaithinmemphis ?
Rev. Cheryl Cornish is pastor of First Congregational Church in Memphis. She is past president of the Memphis Ministers Association, a former Trustee of LeMoyne-Owen College, and former chair of the Board of Directors of the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center. She is chair of the Board of Trustees of the Memphis Mental Health Institute and is a member of the Yale University Divinity School Alumni Board. A Nebraska native, she holds a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University in 1983. She is married to carpenter and flamenco guitarist Mark Allen.Latest Status Update
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Cheryl Cornish wrote a new blog post: Crossing to the other side of the road 3 months ago · View
Many Biblical scholars believe that Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan is the story closest to the heart of his theology and worldview. In that parable, Jesus uses a Samaritan man—someone outside the boundaries of his own Jewish faith and doctrine—as an example of someone who is following God’s Law most authentically as he “crosses [...]
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Cheryl Cornish wrote a new blog post: Nations can be judged by how their animals are treated 10 months ago · View
Who’s responsible for Shelby County ’s stray pet problems? What should be done? What does your faith or tradition teach about our treatment of and responsibility for pets? It was Gandhi—no stranger to the suffering of humanity—so reminded us that the “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way [...]
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Cheryl Cornish wrote a new blog post: The idolatry of believing in one image of God’s humanity 11 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Last week, the Tennessee Senate passed a bill that would forbid public school teachers and students in grades K-8 from discussing the fact that some people are gay. What’s your reaction? How should our schools public and private deal with the subject of human sexuality, and in particular homosexuality? I was raised in the church, attended [...]
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Cheryl Cornish wrote a new blog post: Eye for an eye blinds us all 1 year ago · View
How should people of faith respond to Osama bin Laden’s death? There’s a tendency in all of us to want simple solutions to difficult problems, and I find myself wondering whether the world will be, in fact, more peaceful today than it was last week—prior to bin Laden’s death. I watched two parents sobbing on television [...]
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Cheryl Cornish wrote a new blog post: We are God’s hands and voice 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Many of us were taught, as we grew up, that religion is a black-and-white thing, a system where you have to be more of a lawyer than a poet to find your way through the maze, a system where if you know the rules and follow them, things will go your way. That’s not especially [...]
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Cheryl Cornish wrote a new post: Our obligation to each other’s children 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Memphis city voters will go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to transfer administration of the Memphis City School System to the Shelby County School System. What are the ethical and moral considerations here? How should our faith inform our vote? As our community has been debating school consolidation, I’ve thought so many times of [...]
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Cheryl Cornish wrote a new post: Faith in all our sons and daughters 1 year, 3 months ago · View
What tests my faith in Memphis? What gives me faith in Memphis? I was talking with a young man on the phone yesterday. He grew up in Memphis, graduated from high school with honors. He’s now a graduate student at Harvard. He is brilliant, committed and wants to “give back” to the world through a life of [...]
