My Gettysburg legacy and this turning time
My Gettysburg legacy? A great-great-grandfather who fought there for the Confederacy. And the weightiness of freedom from unhealed wounds.
Isn’t it time to leave the past behind?
God wants to lift from our shoulders staggering burdens that generations have needlessly carried. He wants to show us the way to send away the past that binds.
This “good Christian girl” is a woman now
Grown, yet unaware my view of women was far more Confederate than biblical, I was a good Christian girl. This girl is a woman now, a woman going with God.
Four questions – about Trump, Evangelicals, self-deception and the Civil War
A true story from the past it seems important to tell. Four questions about the present it seems important to ask.
The great righteousness-justice divide
Ultimately, collectively, the church quenched the Spirit’s voice in order to embrace the society’s values. The church began to preach - and to try to live - a righteousness unencumbered with justice. But. God.
Tell us about past events
What one bewildered, battered woman found, and dared to write, before patterns from the past began to replay in the present in such a visible, alarming way.
The Civil War, the South and the church
Abuse began to open my eyes. Then, God showed me what I did not know about the Civil War, the South and the church – to show me what is happening now.
How do I tell you … the way out?
How do I tell you? … What generations have done to cover their shame? What covered shame does to us? How do I tell you the way out?
“The Christians of the South adopted a beguiling code of ‘chivalry’ drawn from fictional accounts of the Dark Ages. They promoted as biblical a view of women heavily influenced by Arthurian romance novels.” – We Confess
Jesus, white men and me
"White men are not the secret weapon (to dismantling injustice in the church and beyond) ... but Jesus is."
“My family never owned slaves”
Much as we may try to do so, we cannot buy ourselves “a pass from American history,” nor from the racist fallout still occurring today.