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.
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.
Cotton I picked, (c) GollyGForce
We need to see
Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church
A call to cultural humility
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.
Confederate Memorial Day and cataclysmic storms
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…