What Reading this Book has Meant for Me I’ve just finished Ed Baptist’s remarkable book on slavery, The Half Has Never Been Told. This book joins Eric Foner’s and Henry Louis Gate’s books on Reconstruction, (click here and here), Isabel Wilkerson’s book on the Great Migration, Ibram Kendi’s history on racist ideas, and Howard Zinn’s …
Three reasons why getting reacquainted with the history of slavery in America is necessary for every citizen.
Tropical Cyclone Idai thrashed large portions of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, left more than 1,300 people dead, and entered the record books as one of the worst tropical cyclones in memory. The long-lived storm battered the eastern nations of the African continent for most of the month of March 2017 and serves a grim example …
These brief essays are rough draft responses to Yuval Noah Harari’s seminal book: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her …
The following book list was generated through a creative conversation between Dr. Brenda Thomas, retired Professor of English, LaGrange College; and Michael Gibson, acquisitions editor for environmental studies, Roman and Littlefield Publishers. These books represent the best book-length material available for persons wishing to link concern for the health of the planet with biblical faith. …
Debby Irving’s book, Waking Up White, not only bristles with insights into the situation faced by people of color in America, but also chronicles her own personal journey of awakening to the ways her middle class background instilled in her attitudes that subtly perpetuated racial injustice.
Now that I’ve resumed making pastoral visits for a local church, I find myself looking for inspiration that will sustain me in this work. Most of my visits or phone calls are to church members who are not in the immediate crisis of a hospitalization, but are plugging along in retirement communities or caring …
