MARTHA PARK w/ DAVID WATERS: WORLD WITHOUT END: ESSAYS ON APOCALYPSE AND AFTER
Schedule
Tue, 06 May, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
387 Perkins Ext, Memphis, TN, United States, Tennessee 38117 | Memphis, TN
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Join us as we welcome MARTHA PARK on TUESDAY, MAY 6 at 6:00 PM to celebrate the release of her new bookWORLD WITHOUT END: ESSAYS ON APOCALYPSE AND AFTER
ABOUT THE BOOK:
For fans of Margaret Renkl and Lisa Wells’s Believers, World Without End circles the connections between climate change and faith in the fear and fascination of the end of the world.
When Martha Park’s father announced he was retiring from the ministry after forty-two years, she moved home to Memphis to attend his United Methodist church for his last year in the pulpit. She hoped to encounter a more certain sense of herself as secular or religious. Instead, she became increasingly compelled by uncertainty itself, curious about whether doubt could be a kind of faith, one that more closely echoed the world itself, one marked by loss, beauty, and constant change.
In illustrated essays, World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After explores the intersections of faith, motherhood, and the climate crisis across the South, from man-made wetlands in Arkansas to conservation cemeteries in South Carolina; from a full-scale replica of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky to the reenactment of the Scopes Monkey Trial. Park chronicles how the faith she was raised in now seems like an exception to the rule and explores this divide with compassion and empathy.
World Without End considers the ways religion shapes how we understand and interact with the world—and how faith can compel us all to work to save the places we love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Martha Park is a writer and illustrator from Memphis. Martha’s work has appeared in Oxford American, The Bitter Southerner, MLK50, The Guardian, ProPublica, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and support from the Religion & Environment Story Project, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and Bucknell University’s Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts. Her first book, World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After, explores the intersections of faith, motherhood, and the climate crisis across the South.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER:
David Waters is Distinguished Journalist in Residence and assistant director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis. He worked for The Commercial Appeal for more than 35 years, holding a variety of reporting and editing positions, including religion and education reporter, columnist, and editorial page editor. He also was religion editor for The Washington Post from 2007-2010. His numerous state and national journalism awards include a Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors, five Wilbur Awards from the Religion Communicators Council, and induction in the Scripps Howard Editorial Hall of Fame.
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Where is it happening?
387 Perkins Ext, Memphis, TN, United States, Tennessee 38117Event Location & Nearby Stays:
