Books for What’s Next in 2021
The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong can be Made Right by Lisa Sharon Harper (2016), Be The Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial...
Gift
December 7, 2020
Snow is falling in DecemberAnd I take this as a giftLeave early to walk the quiet streetNow half decorated for the seasonThe shouts...
Dolly and W.C.
As our minivan wound its way through the Smokey Mountains to Sevier County, Tennessee, home of Dollywood Splash Country, I paused the latest Percy...
“It’s (Still) Alive”
This time last year, when museums were open and we could move freely about the city, Todd and I took the girls to see...
Rejoice Always
If you're one of the cool kids on TikTok, then you already know about Nathan Apodaca's video of himself skateboarding while drinking Cran-raspberry juice...
Baptists and Banjos: Racism and a Chance for Redemption
When I began writing a mash up of Baptist history and country music, the resulting five part series was not what I had in...
The Last Shall Be First
Text: Matthew 20:1-16
I don’t know when I first ate fried green tomatoes, but then again, I don’t remember ever not eating them either. If...
“The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander & “Just Mercy” by...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (10th Anniversary Ed.), by Michelle Alexander, and Just Mercy: A Story of Justice...
Book Review: “This is What I Know About Art” by Kimberly...
Kimberly Drew’s book, This is What I Know About Art, is a tiny book at 63 pages, and certainly does not reflect all that...
“The Spirit of Haida Gwaii” a Text Poem by Bill Reid
The following is Bill Reid's description of his sculpture, "The Spirit of Haida Gwaii" as dictated to his wife Martine Reid. This "text poem"...
