Significance of Second Calvary Church

In "The Faithful," Second Calvary Church is pastored by the Rev. John Butler, whose sermons are stuck in such a rut that parishioners are straying to Rev. Tarwell's church on 138th St., where they like what they hear. It is rumored Tarwell may have himself crucified at Easter Sunrise Service and preach from the cross. He preaches like the old South, for which many are homesick. Butler is obsessed with a single theme, delivered in a comfortable chant, about biblical examples of family dysfunction. He finds it hard to get an "Amen" from his hearers.