Deep South

Twin waterfalls flowing as one, in a lush green setting at Ricketts Glen State Park, Benton, Pennsylvania

The great righteousness-justice divide

Post published:October 24, 2020
Post category:From: We Confess!Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:May 21, 2025

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.

White cotton boll hanging from a brown stem

Cotton I picked, (c) GollyGForce

We need to see

Post published:January 30, 2017
Post category:From: We Confess!
Post last modified:November 12, 2023

Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church

From the cover of Pondering Privilege: White dove holds an olive branch in its beak, over the book's subtitle, "toward a deeper understanding of whiteness, race, and faith."

A call to cultural humility

Post published:June 11, 2016
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:March 10, 2024

This book is a call to cultural humility by a woman who writes with a lot of humility. It's a call to us who are white to press in to see that what we count "normal" may not be others' normal at all.

Sky filled with storm clouds, black and blood-red

Confederate Memorial Day and cataclysmic storms

Post published:May 1, 2014
Post category:From: We Confess!
Post last modified:March 16, 2024

In April 2011 and again in April 2014 – on the date when the most state celebrations of the former Confederacy converged – major storms spawned deadly tornadoes and record-breaking…

Black-and-white photo taken July, 1863, after Battle of Gettysburg: Three Confederate prisoners (apparently in civilian clothes) wait next to a log barricade.

My Gettysburg legacy and this turning time

Post published:July 2, 2013
Post category:My Story Trauma and Grief
Post last modified:February 8, 2025

In a very real way, I was there when my great-great-grandfather Lorenzo Whitaker survived the Civil War, and more specifically, the Battle of Gettysburg.