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…
Strange fruit – or good?
"The Church's broken history with race needs to be acknowledged before we can move forward."
My Gettysburg legacy and this turning time
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.
Cornfield at Antietam
Redeeming the past
Mini-post. Image of the cornfield at Antietam, where my great-great-grandfather fought. Quote about repeating the past and redeeming the past, from We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church.
“In the very center of this dreadful contest, so destructive to life and limb, stood this humble, little log-church, from which the great battle of Shiloh took its name.”
Shiloh
“In the very center of this dreadful contest, so destructive to life and limb, stood this humble, little log-church, from which the great battle of Shiloh took its name.” April…